Evolution People

Question 1

Plato & Aristotle

Answer 1

• Greek philosopher
• what is reality ? = idealism
• life formed remained fix

Question 2

Carlos Linnaeus

Answer 2

• father of taxonomy
• “god created, I organized”

Question 3

James Hutton

Answer 3

• uniformitarianism
  “Present is the key to the past”

Question 4

Charles Lyell

Answer 4

• father of geology
• concept of geological time
• “earth is a thousand years old”
• things are older than they seem

Question 5

William Smith

Answer 5

• principle of fossil succession
• concept of faunal replacement (reason why we don’t find human bones with animals bones)

Question 6

George’s Curier

Answer 6

• catastrophism (concept of extinction)

Question 7

Thomas Malthus

Answer 7

• concept of population limit
• human population potential for reproduction which was faster than food supply
  -“essay of the principle of population”

Question 8

Jean Bapiste de Lamack

Answer 8

-concept of evolution
-natural selection to give survival traits to next generation
- views can’t be supported
- “inheritance of acquired characteristics”

Question 9

Charles Darwin

Answer 9

• found natural selection by researching birds on a island (Galapagos)

Question 10

Alfred Russell Wallace

Answer 10

• sent manuscript to Darwin to peer review
• Darwin went to Lyell to ask about Wallace’s contribution to natural selection, then Darwin copied his paper
• “descent with modification”, ancestral species and descendent species= Darwin’s theory
• evolution explains difference in biodiversity

Question 11

Richard Owen

Answer 11

• creationist
• made the word “dinosaur”
• opposed darwins theory
• homology is the similarity due to common ancestry

Question 12

Thomas Huxley

Answer 12

• Darwin’s bulldog
• his defender

Question 13

Theodosius Dobzhansky

Answer 13

• unifying principle of biology = evolution
• nothing in biology makes sense, except in the light of evolution

Question 14

Ernest Haeckel

Answer 14

comparative embryology: ontogeny (developmental history of an individual) recapitulates phylogeny

Question 15

Gregor Mendel

Answer 15

• father of genetics
• “mendelian genetics”
• allele interaction, one pair chromosome, interaction between two allels at a locus
• outcome depends on a genotype, dominance of allele, and mode of inheritance