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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
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Charles Lyell (1797-1875)
incorporated gradualism into the theory of uniformitarianism -
Malthus publishes "Essay on the Principle of Population"
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Lyell publishes Principles of Geology
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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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Evolutionary Theory