Exam 1 People

Question 1

Charles Darwin

Answer 1

Naturalist who voyaged 1831-1836.
Descent with modification

Question 2

Carolus Linnaeus

Answer 2

Swedish physician and botanist.

Developed the bi-nomial naming system.

Believed in pattern of creation (that god made things perfect and had a set place)

Did not believe in evolution until later in his life

Question 3

Georges Cuvier

Answer 3

Paleontology (study of fossils)

Opposed ideas of evolution while noting that older stratum contained fossils that differ from current life forms

Question 4

Thomas Malthus

Answer 4

Economist

Human suffering results from humans potential to populate faster than food supplies and other resources

Created malthusian catastrophe based on ^

Question 5

James Hutton

Answer 5

gradual mechanisms

Aka valleys formed by rivers

Question 6

Charles Lyell

Answer 6

Same as Hutton but believes everything happens at a consistent rate

Question 7

Jean-Baptiste de Lamark

Answer 7

use and disuse theory (false)

Thought evolution happened because of species innate drive to be complex

Question 8

Alfred Russel Walace

Answer 8

Developed hypothesis of natural selection nearly identical to Darwins but insisted Darwin took a larger claim and jointly published journals with Darwin

Question 9

Aristotle

Answer 9

Thought each life form was perfect on a scale of increasing complexity