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Origins of Evolutionary Thought (James Hutton (Theorized the Rock Cycle…
Origins of Evolutionary Thought
James Hutton
Theorized the Rock Cycle (uniformitarianism)
Developed a theory of the rain.
Esatblished Geology as a true science.
First person to think of the world as millions of years old.
Thomas Malthus
Believed that population growth will always outrun food supply without population control.
Published the book
An Essay on the Principle of Population
.
Theorized what is now known as Malthusianism.
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
One of first to discover that traits could be passed on to offspring.
Theory disproved as modifications in ones lifetime cannot be passed on to offspring.
Created Lamarckism, hypothesis that organisms can pass on acquired traits through use or disuse.
Carolus Linnaeus
Developed "sexual system" of classification.
Wrote a booklet "The foundations of Botany." (1736)
Creator of Binomial Nomenclature.
Charles Darwin
Theorized Darwinism as a result of scientific discoveries on the Galapagos island as well as other researchers discoveries, with the help and knowledge of Alfred Wallace.
Wrote
On the Origin of Species
, where he proved his theories of natural selection and evolution. Most famous book that he wrote.
Made people aware that humans are not so unique in that they ARE in fact related to others mammals and had evolved over time. Many people were still in close ties to the Church of England at the time, where they had believed that evolution from ape to man was not possible and unlikely.
His ideas were among the first to lay the foundation for evolutionary study and are considered a landmark in human history.
Alfred Wallace
Co-discoverer of theory of natural selection.
Realized that regions are shaped the animals that live there.
Theorized what is now the Wallace Line.
Charles Lyell
Further proved what Hutton had theorized in terms of geological force.
Believed that, like Hutton, the processes that alter the earth are uniform through time. (uniformitarianism)
Wrote the book
Principles of Geology