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8 Cards in this Set
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Carl Linnaeus (1707 - 1778)
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'Father of Taxonomy'. Introduced order of primates. -humans in hominidae. -great apes in pongidae (chimps, gorillas) Created genus and species classification
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Georges Cuvier (1769 - 1832)
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'Father of comparative anatomy'. Animal are suited/adapted for their environment. Formulated Catastrophism - disasters that wipe out life forms e.g meteor strike wiped dinosaurs
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James Hutton (1726 - 1797) & Charles Lyell (1797-1875)
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Uniformitarianism - slow gradual changes suggest age of earth, slow gradual change over generations
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Georges - Louis Lederc, Comte de Buffon ( 1707- 1788)
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Noticed differences in a species, due to climate, affected by environment
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Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744 - 1829)
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Inheritance of acquired characteristics. Organisms are adapted to their environment. Evolution change through or disease
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Charles Darwin ( 1809 - 1882)
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HMS Beagle 5 yr trip around the world. Published origin of species by means of natural selection ( 1859)
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Alfred Russell Wallace ( 1823 - 1913)
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Jointly published paper with Darwin, similar ideas/theories
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George Mendel (1812 - 1884)
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Father of genetics, segregation law, independent assortment
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