Evolutionary History and Theory

Judeo-Christian tradition

Rooted in spirituality, God created everything, Lifde and Earth are staitc (change is not a thing)

Fixity of Species Concept

Species do not change throughout time

Grand Design Concept

God created everything perfectly

Great Chain of Being

a hierarchical structure of all matter and life, the goal was to come back as something better

Archbishop James Usher

Studies relationships in the Bible, believed 4004 BC was the date of creation- when God first put people on Earth

Renaissance period

people began to explore science, the first time the biblical view was challenged. It was also the demise of anthropocentrism

John Ray

developed species concept.

Carolus Linnaeus

Developed the classification system

Created two groups (genus and species)

Developed binomial nomenclature

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

This man developed the first cohesive theory of evolution after his studies of biology

Theory of Inherited Acquired Characteristics (jean-baptist)

Animals could change physical appearance to better suit themselves for the environment

George Cuvier

Introduced the idea of extinction (catastrophism)

James Hutton

Uniformitarianism- Geologic processes are uniform over time, they happen again and again

Charles Lyell

Reinvigorated the idea of uniformitarianism, created first textbook.

Charles Darwin

theory of evolution, theory of natural selection

He got his ideas from others

Darwin's reason for natural selection

Variation, Competition, Adaptions, Selections

Alfred Russel Wallace

British naturalist who developed a hypothesis of natural selection similar to Darwin's