EVO ECO bullshit

sonion

Nicholas Steno

mf who discovered fossils

Robert Hooke

invented the compound microscope

William Paley

“Natural Theology”

Carolus Linnaeus

father of modern taxonomy, systematics — group organisms based on shared ancestry

Buffon

proposed Earth is extremely old,

Lamarck

Inheritnace of Acquired Characteristics

Georges Cuvier

proved extinction, anti-evolutionist; catastrophism

Anning

1st paleontoolgist

William Smith

Same fossils occur in the same strata — classify older/newer rocks & fossils

James Hutton

Gradualism — features of modern Earth is the result of gradual change

Charles Lyell

est idea of uniformitarianism

uniformitarianism — ongoing process reponsible for events in the past

Alfrede Russel Wallace

co founded the theory of evolution by natural selection and study of evol biogeography

• wallace’s line; Lydekker Line

Darwin

galapagos island exploration

• “descent w modification”

Hadean Eon

lava

Archaean Eon

shallow seas, 1st life forms —> stromatolites
3.7 Gya
3.45 Gya

Proterozoic Eon

2.45 Gya — photosyn cyanobacteria, O2 levels rise
1.87 Gya — endosymbiosis/euk form

2.1 Gya — fossils suggest mulicellulairty

1.2 Gya — oldest known fossil of red algae (Multicellular)

Phanerozoic Eon

575 Mya — Ediacaran fauna: earliest evidence of a large animal fauna

511-541 Mta: Cambrian explosion, chordates [Burgess Shale}
428 Mya — oldest known land organism
386 Mya — earliest land plants

375 Mya — earliest terrestrial vertebrate fossils

130 Mya — earliest angiosperms

6-7 Mya — oldest bipedal hominid

300 Kya — oldest known Homo sapiens