Exam 1 Part 4 Flashcards
Created taxonomy, rationality of species organization represented God’s design; recognized similarities between ape and humans
Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1798)
A system of classifying life on earth in Latin
Taxonomy
When was Systema Naturae created?
1735
Book that had defining features of classification scheme were nested hierarchy of species and binomial nomenclature, different way way of classifying organisms than the great chain of being
Systema Naturae
Every species on earth has 2 names, genus and species
Binomial nomenclature
What is the nested hierarchy from inclusive to exclusive?
Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species
Ingest food
Animalia
Have a Vertebral cord
Chordata
Have fur, warm blooded, mammary glands
Mammalia
Includes great apes
Hominidae
Genus
Homo
Species
Sapien
Charle’s Darwin’s grandfather, wrote Zoonomia, believed that the progress of life was towards a higher organization
Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)
Book that proposed species are self improving through time (evolution)
Zoonomia (1794-1796)
Person who believed the inheritance of acquired characteristics, species change through time, plants and animals are adapted to their environments because of evolution NOT design, major evolutionary thinker before Charles Darwin
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829)
Characteristics you acquire through your lifespan are inherited through your offspring; traits in use change over generations and disuse of traits caused recession over generations
Inheritance of acquired characteristics
Political economist who argued that population grew faster than resources allowed; a struggle for existence = competition for finite resources
Thomas Malthus
When was “An Essay on The Principle of Population” created?
1798
How did Thomas Malthus’ work influence Charles Darwin’s thoughts on the evolutionary theory?
Darwin thought more about the competition within a species
Person who developed the theory of evolution and natural selection
Charles Darwin
