DEVELOPMENT OF EVOLUTIONARY THOUGHT Flashcards

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swedish botanist and naturalist who created modern taxonomy and systems naturae

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carl linnaeus

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pointed out human nature and overpopulation

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thomal robert malthus

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founded vertebrate paleontology and catastrophism

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georges carter

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catastrophism

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natural history has bee npunctuated by catastrophic events that altered life development

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james hutton

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founder of modern geology who introduced gradualism

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gradualism

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profound changes to the earth are due to slow continuous processes

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principles of geology, popularized the idea of uniformitarianism

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charles lyell

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uniformitarianism

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earth was shaped by slow moving operations

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living things evolve continuously upward,use and disuse of organs, inheritance of acquired characteristics

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jean baptiste lamarck

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islands charles darwin visited to collect mockingbirds

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san cristobal
floreana
isabela
pinta
genovesa
marchena
santiago

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