Chapter 2 Flashcards
Prior assumptions before Darwin rev
Age of earth- 6,000yrs
Creationism ( all beings created by God)
Great chain of being ( bottom up)
Fixity of species( species doesn’t change over time)
Evolution by natural selection
Survival of the fittest
Survival and reproduction
Carolus Linnaeus
1707-1778
Swedish botonist
Taxonomy
Binomial nomenclature
Taxonomy
Classify living things
Linnaeus
Binomial nomenclature
Genius and species
Comte Buffon
1707-1788
French botanist
Environment and change
Environment and Change
Buffon
Split up species and may change
Erasmus Darwin
1731-1802 English physician and poet Poems Grandfather to Darwin Evolution
Jean- Baptiste Lamarck
1744-1829
French naturalist
Law of use and disuse
Inheritance of squired traits
Law is use and disuse
Lamarck
Use it stays and disuse it goes away
Inheritance of aquired traits
Lamarck
Offspring inherit your traits
George’s Cuvier
1769-1832
French zoologist
Father of zoology
Fixity of species
Fixity of species
Not evolution big catastrophe
Charles Lyell
1797- 1875
English geologist
Uniformitarism
The Darwin revolution
“Scientific revolution”
Change in way of thinking
1800s
