Evolutionary Theory

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  • Carolus Linnaues (1707-1778)

    passion was taxonemy, developed a hierarchical classifications scheme and binomial nomenclature

  • James Hutton (1726-1797)

    proposed that the Earth was millions of years old instead of a few thousand.
    proposed gradualism, changes in earth's crust due to slow continuous processes

  • Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829)

    stated that changes are adaptation to environment are required in an organism's lifetime

  • Thomas Mathus (1766-1834)

    Hyothesis: Plants and animals are capable of producing far more offspring than rsources can support; the "stuggle for existence" is an inescapable consequence

  • Georges Cuvier (1769 - 1832)

    developed paleontology and catastrophism, that species disappear due to a catastrophic event of the earth's crust

  • Hutton proposes his theory of gradualism

  • Charles Lyell (1797-1875)

    incorporated gradualism into the theory of uniformitarianism

  • Malthus publishes "Essay on the Principle of Population"

  • Lyell publishes Principles of Geology

  • Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection"

    published "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection"

  • Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C)

    said species are permanet, perfect, and immutable with increasing complexity
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