Persons and their Contributions Flashcards
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He predicted that the population of humans will grown faster than the amount of space and food that they need to survive
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Thomas Malthus
2
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Known for his Theory of inheritance of acquired traits. Was the first to give an explanation on how organisms change over time
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
2
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Wrote On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection
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Charles Darwin
3
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Proposed the theory of descents
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Alfred Wallace
4
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Proposed the theory of extinction based on fossils and theory of catastrophism which explained the mass extinction of organisms in the past
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George Cuvier
5
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Coined the term homology which means “different animals with the same organs but with different forms and structure”
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Richard Owen
