People Bi164

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Aristotle

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first person to look at and observe nature

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Carolus Linnaeus

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created Systema Naturae, the classification system, unwittingly setting the stage for evolutionary insights (1700s)

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Buffon

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created Historie Naturelle, made important contributions to classification, after Linneaus

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Georges Cuvier

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looked at closely related organisms to see their similarities and differences, first comparative biologist

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Lemarck

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first mention of modern idea of evolution in print (1836)

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Karl Ernst von Baer

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first comparative embryologist, saw that embryos are all very similar

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Charles Darwin

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H.M.S. Beagle from 1831-36 to map South American coast, 13 finches on Galapagos Islands, didn't even think birds were related until two years after he returned. Published first work in 1859.

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Charles Lyell

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geologist, came up with uniformitarianism, idea that geological processes have been acting since formation of the earth (gave Darwin time necessary for his theory to be correct)

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Thomas Malthus

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published important paper on human populations and resources, Darwin thought other species could overshoot their resources as well (struggle for existence)

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Alfred Russel Wallce

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came up with theory of natural selection simultaneously w/Darwin

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Gregor Mendel

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monk in Belgium, worked w/peas and inheritance, died before his work was appreciated 30 years later

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Correns, Tschemak and de Vries

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recreated Mendel's experiments, begins understanding of inheritance

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Thomas Hunt Morgan

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1905, first geneticist to use drosophila melanogaster (fruit flies), found white-eyed mutant

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Nettie Stevens

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first discovered sex chromosomes on insects

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Yule

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1920s, worried about mutations in London children, very short fingers, thought all future children were going to get illness (Brachydactyly)

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Hardy and Weinberg

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their principle proved Yule wrong, came up with idea simultaneously

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Warwick Kerr and Sewall Wright

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studied genetic drift with mating of fruit flies