DEVELOPMENT OF EVOLUTIONARY THOUGHT Flashcards
swedish botanist and naturalist who created modern taxonomy and systems naturae
carl linnaeus
pointed out human nature and overpopulation
thomal robert malthus
founded vertebrate paleontology and catastrophism
georges carter
catastrophism
natural history has bee npunctuated by catastrophic events that altered life development
james hutton
founder of modern geology who introduced gradualism
gradualism
profound changes to the earth are due to slow continuous processes
principles of geology, popularized the idea of uniformitarianism
charles lyell
uniformitarianism
earth was shaped by slow moving operations
living things evolve continuously upward,use and disuse of organs, inheritance of acquired characteristics
jean baptiste lamarck
islands charles darwin visited to collect mockingbirds
san cristobal
floreana
isabela
pinta
genovesa
marchena
santiago