Darwins Influences Flashcards
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Jean baptiste Lamarck
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- Giraffe stretches neck
- “use and disuse”
- realized that animals evolved
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Linnaeus
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- systematically classified species into hierarchy
- developed binomial system of nonmemclature
- animals changed themselves
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Erasmus Darwin
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- supporter of Lamarck
- studied plant evolution
- hate way to connections for Charles D
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Thomas Malthus
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- believed that pop’n increases exponential and resources are linear, eventually they meet
- Darwin took away competition from this
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James Hutton
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- Geologist who studied changes in environments
* “principle of uniformitarianism” - one can project past or future with present info
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Charles Lyell
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Also a geologist who extended buttons concepts of gradual change over long periods of time
Darwin took away that animals would change with environments
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Farmers and breeders
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- learned about force breeding
* variations of organisms
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Gregor Mendel
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• father of genetics
- learned that characteristics from parents go on to offspring
