Scientists Flashcards
Geologists James Hutton and Charles Lyell
Percieved that the change in earth surface is result of slow continuous actions that are still operating today
Georges Cuvier
dev of paleontology, also catastrophism
Who came up with uniformitarianism
Charles Lyell
What was Lamarck’s hypothesis
Species develop through the disuse of body parts and inheritance of acquired traits
It is incorrect
Darwins Ideas
Descent with modification explains life’s
unity and diversity
Natural selection is a cause of adaptive
evolution.
What did Thomas Malthus note
population could grow beyond what the environment could handle
What did Alfred wallace do
developed bio geography - states that species that live closer together are more related than species that have similar lifestyle far away.
Also came up with theory of evolution
used malaysian islands
wallce line
