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Georges Cuvier
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frenchman antamonist; founded paleontology; lifes history recored in strata; RECOGNIZES EXTINCTION; APPERARNACE OF NEW SPECIES; CATASTROPHISM
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Ernst Mayr
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suggested that colonization events are liked to trigger speciazation for 2 reasons 1- the physical seperation between populations reduces 2-genetic drift will cause the old and new populations to diverge rapidly
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Carl Linneus
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FATHER OF TAXONOMY (classified species); hierarchy but believed they were fixed/permenant
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Jean Baptist Lamarck
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ANCIENT EARTH believer; organisms adapt to their enviorment; inheritance of acquired charcteristics
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Charles Darwin
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inventor and stong believer of THEORY OF EVOLUTION; wrote book-orgin of species
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Charles Lyell
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UNIFOMITARIAISM-geological process are uniform and have adapted as such from the orgin of the earth until present (earth must be very old); scottish geologist
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Thomas Malthus
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best known for his views on population growth; population would outrun food supply leading to a decrease in food person
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Charles Doolittle Walcott
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an invetebrate palentoligist; best known for his discovery of fossils in the burgees shale formation of British Columbia
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Lynn Margulis
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known for theory on the orgin of eukaryotic organnelles and her contributions to the endosymbiotic theory which is now generally accepted for how certain organelles were formed
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