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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck |
a French naturalist. In 1801, he published Système des animaux sans vertèbres, a major work on the classification of invertebrates. Widely remembered for a theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics, called soft inheritance.
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George Cuvier |
Comparative Anatomy, (With animals and fossils) brought large collections of fossils
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James Hutton |
Came up with the theory of Uniformitarianism, explained Earth’s Crust by means of natural processes over geologic time. |
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Charles Lyell |
Wrote Principles of Geology, which popularized Uniformitarianism - the idea that the Earth was shaped by the same processes still in operation today.
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Republic of Letters |
the long-distance intellectual community in the late 17th and 18th centuries in Europe and America. It fostered communication among the intellectuals of the Age of Enlightenment.
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robert Malthus: Essay on the Principle of Population |
Influenced Charles Darwin on Natural Selection. Explained large populations and consequences of them. (Malfusian Catastrophe is the name of the consequences)
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Thomas Malthus |
His An Essay on the Principle of Population observed that sooner or later population will be checked by famine and disease, leading to what is known as a Malthusian catastrophe.
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Thomas Huxley |
Supported Darwin and his ideas, supported his theory of evolution
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