Evolution Flashcards
Test Coverage
What system did Carl Linnaeus use to classify organisms?
Binomial nomenclature (Genus species)
What British surveyor noticed that certain fossils were always found in the same layers of rocks?
William Smith
What Theory did Georges Cuvier propose?
Catastrophism
What is Catastrophism
The theory that changes in the earth’s crust during geological history have resulted chiefly from sudden violent and unusual events.
James Hutton proposed what process (the slow continuous cycles of erosion and uplift)
Gradualism
Uniformitarianism was an idea developed by who?
Charles Lyell
Who proposed that organisms evolved through the inheritance of acquired characteristics?
Jean Baptiste Lamarck
Thomas Malthus suggested what?
That human population growth would be limited by resources
