Important Names Flashcards

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Alfred Wallace

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(1823-1913) independent identified natural selection as the key to the evolutionary process (p40)

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Charles Darwin

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(1809-1882) Book “On the Origin of Species”, outlining natural selection , and (later termed) evolution (p40)

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Thomas Malthus

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(1766–1834) “An Essay on the Principle of Population” economist, argued for limits on population growth => populations grow but resources remain the same. (Influenced Darwin and Wallace in discovering natural selection.)

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Gregor Mendel

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(1822–1884) monk, heredity, pea experiments.

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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

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(1744–1829) “Changes in environment shape a species”, attempts to explain the workings of evolution rather than just observe it

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Charles Lyell

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(1797–1875) founder of modern geology, lawyer, (1836) Charles Darwin’s friend and mentor, “Principles of Geology” (1833): argued that the geological processes we see today are the same as those in the past, aka uniformitarianism. Influenced theory of earth’s timescale from thousands to millions of years.

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Georges Cuvier

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(1769– 1832), introduced the concept of extinction to explain the disappearance of animals represented by fossils. never grasped the dynamic concept of nature and continued to insist on the fixity of species

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