Important Names Flashcards
Alfred Wallace
(1823-1913) independent identified natural selection as the key to the evolutionary process (p40)
Charles Darwin
(1809-1882) Book “On the Origin of Species”, outlining natural selection , and (later termed) evolution (p40)
Thomas Malthus
(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.)
Gregor Mendel
(1822–1884) monk, heredity, pea experiments.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
(1744–1829) “Changes in environment shape a species”, attempts to explain the workings of evolution rather than just observe it
Charles Lyell
(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.
Georges Cuvier
(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