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Linnaeus
swedish physician and botanist
father of taxonomy
developed hierarchical classifications scheme and binomial nomenclative -
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Hutton
scottish geologist
alternative to catastophism.
proposed the earth was millions of years old.
started gradualism (slow changes) -
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Lamarck
Invertebrate curator
proposed change in species over time.
acquired in an organism's lifetime and passed on to offspring.
laws of use and disuse
inheritance of acquired characteristics -
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Malthus
english demographer
"struggle for existance" -
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Cuvier
french anatomist
developed paleontology
deeper strata
catastrophism -
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Lyell
scottish geologist
proposed uniformitarianism
proposed earth was millions of years old.
wrote "Principles of Geology" -
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Darwin
english gentleman.
conceived natural selection as the principle mechanism of adaptive evolution -
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Wallace
english biologist
concieved of natural selectoin as the principle of adaptive evolution.
"common ancestor"
Origin of Species (1859)