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Mary Mantell
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found the tooth of the Iguanadon
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Richard Owen
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coined the term dinosaur
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Thomas Huxley
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united evolution and paleontology. first to propose relations to birds.
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Carolus Linnaeus
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came up with the system for naming species. binomial nomenclature.
hierarchical system: domains kingdoms etc |
genus and species
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Nicholas Steno
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fossils looked like living organisms.
sediment is always horizontal younger is on the top old on bottom |
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James Hutton or Charles Lyell?
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uniformitarianism - the present is the key to the past
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William Smith
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first geological map using index fossils - relative aging
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Alfred Wegner
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the origin of continents
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Baptiste Lamarck
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pre-Darwin evolutionist species change based on aquired characteristics
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Gregor Mendel
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first to demonstrate particular inheritance... peas
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