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Contributions To Evolutionary Thought Flashcards

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First codified the scientific method

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Bacon

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Established the system of binomial nomenclature

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Linnaeus

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Comparative anatomy

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Comte de Buffon

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Extinction; catastrophism

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Cuvier

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Uniformitarianism

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Hutton

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Rocks and strata increase in age as the further down they are in a geological sequence

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Lyell

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Theory of inheritance of acquired traits

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Lamarck

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Carrying capacity

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Malthus

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Evolution by natural selection

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Darwin (and Wallace)

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Mouse experiment to counteract Lamarck’s theory

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Weissman

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