scientists name and what they did Flashcards
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Linneas
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swedish physician, binomial nomenclature, “greater good of god”
2
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Cuvier
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father of paleontology, studied strata, “catastrophism”, natural disasters
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Erasmus Darwin
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survival of the fittest, complex evolution of all “filaments”
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Lamarck
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“use and disuse” and “inheritance of acquired characteristics”
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Hutton
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scottish geologist, created gradualism
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Lyell
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geologist, built on hutton’s work, darwin … gradual changes in biology
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Malthus
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population economist, “principle of populations”, competition for food
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Wallace
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british naturalist, similar research, “origin of species”, co-present
