Lesson 2.1: Evolution: Definition and Charles Darwin Flashcards
What do you call the process of the change in genetic composition of a population from generation to generation?
evolution
Who defined evolution as fixed and unchanging?
Aristotle
What book defines evolution as God’s design; all organisms are perfect?
The Old Testament
Who defined the principle of Population? (ratio of human population to food production)
Thomas Maltus
Who defined evolution in a gradualistic concept? (geologic changes occur through a slow continuous process)
James Hutton
Who defined the theory of catastrophe in evolution? (upper strata fossils are young fossils, lower strata fossils are old fossils)
Georges Cuvier
Who defined evolution as a Uniformitarian Process? (what is observed occurs all the time at the same rate)
Charles Lyell (agreed to Hutton)
Who theorized the use and disuse?
Jean Baptiste de Lamarck
Who proposed the “Scala Naturae”?
Aristotle
What idea suggests the organization of life forms arranged in a ladder? (highest:top, lowest:bottom)
“Scala Naturae”/”Natural Ladder”
Who proposed the mechanism of Natural selection?
Charles darwin
