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Carolus Linnaeus
(1707-1832)
Swedish physician & botanist whose passion was taxonomy
developed a hierarchical classification system. -
James Hutton
(1726-1797)
Scottish geologist who offered an alternative to catasttrophism
proposed the earth was a few thousand years old -
Jean Baptiste Lamarck
(1744-1829)
Invertabrate curator of the natural history museum in paris
one of the 18th & 19th centuries biologists who hypothesized that triats of species are not immutable, they evolve! -
Georges Cuvier
(1769-1832)
French anatomist who largerly developed paleontology, the study of fossils
deeper strata contain older taxa -
Charles Lyell
(1797-1875)
Scottish geologist who incorporated hutton gradualism into the theory of uniformitarianism -
Thomas Malthus
(1766-1834)
English demographer
plants and animals are capable of producing far more offspring that resources can support ''struggle for existence''
each species struggle for
food
living space
mates -
Charles Darwin
(1809-1882)
English gentlemen who conceived of natural selection as the principal mechnamism of adaptive evolution -
Alfred Russel Wallace
(1823-1913)
English botanist who also (indenpendently) conceived of natural selection as the principal mechnism of adaptive evolution
''the origin of species'' (1859) -
Aristotle
(384-322 B.C.)
Greek Philosopher
species are permenant perfect immutable.