DEVELOPMENT OF EVOLUTIONARY THOUGHTS Flashcards
father of evolution
Charles Darwin
in this times people have tried to explain the different events and phenomena that happen within the natural world.
Ancient Beliefs
In place of scientific explanations, people used myths and other supernatural stories.
Ancient Beliefs
Early naturalists tried to explain ideas scientifically.
Ancient Beliefs
Focuses on the history and descriptions of animals
Historia Animalium - Aristotle
Describes animal reproduction
De Generatione Animalium- Aristotle
Focuses on animal anatomy, morphology, and physiology
De Partibus Animalium- Aristotle
organized organisms into a hierarchy, with humans being at the top of the ladder
Scala Naturae - Aristotle
was one of Aristotle’s successors and did extensive work on plants in his Historia Plantarum.
Theophrastus
wrote the work Naturalis Historia which tackled several fields such as biology, astronomy, mathematics, and many other branches of science.
Pliny the Elder
Most religions also have their own creation myths.
Religious Creationism
He published the Kitab al-Hayawan, also known as the Book of the Animals. his work had multiple ideas that predated but supported the idea of natural selection. Some of these include early ideas of adaptation, competition, and more.
Al Jahiz
A notable view he held was that natural phenomena do not occur without an ultimate purpose.
He argued that natural events work toward some kind of purpose.
St. Thomas Aquinas
published the Muqaddimah. It described the formation of plants and animals from simple life forms to more complex ones.
Ibn Khaldun
Considérations sur les Corps Organisées (Considerations on Organized Bodies), used the term evolution to describe his own concept of preformation.
Charles Bonnet
