Chapter 15: Darwin and Evolution Lecture
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Evolution
species change through time
It explains Unity of Life:
Similarities between living organisms reflect recent common ancestry.
It explains Diversity of Life:
Dissimilarities between living organisms reflect ancient common ancestry.
Buffon 44
A French naturalist.
Wrote a 44-volume catalog of all known plants and animals.
He provided evidence of evolution and suggested mechanisms, including environmental influences and the struggle for existence.
Linnaeus
Believed in the fixity of species.
Each species had:
An ideal structure and function, and a place in the scala naturae (a sequential ladder of life).
He developed the binomial system of nomenclature.
System of classification for living organisms.
Cuvier (fossils)
First to use comparative anatomy to develop a system of classifying animals. Founded the science of paleontology. Proposed catastrophism.