Scientific Figures Flashcards
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Aristotle
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- 384-322 BCE
- authored “History of Animals”
- established a systematic observational approach to studying animals
- introduced the idea of genus and species
- wrote criteria for determining groupings
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Linnaeus
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- 1707-1778
- Systema Naturae (1758)
- introduced hierarchical classification by taxonomic ranks
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Charles Darwin
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- Voyage of HMS Beagle (1831-6)
- Origin of Species (1858)
- Proposed evolution by natural selection
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James Watson & Francis Crick
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- “The Double Helix” published in Nature (1953)
- Revealed the mechanism underlying Darwin’s theory
- Worked on X-Ray diffraction photographs generated by Rosalind Franklin & Maurice Wilkins
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Georges Cuvier
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- Recognised that many fossils represent extinct species
- Catastrophism theory: extinct species died in catastrophes like the biblical flood.
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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- Suggested that new species can develop (I.e. evolution)
- Acknowledged hereditary changes, but believed in heredity of acquired traits.
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Alfred Russell Wallace
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Came up with “natural selection” independently of Darwin
