People Who Influenced Darwin Flashcards
(8 cards)
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Thomas Malthus
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Struggle for existence (resources)
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James Hutton
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Gradualism
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Lamarck
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Inheritance of acquired characteristics, law of use and disuse
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Charles Lyell
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Uniformitarinism
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Georges Cuvier
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Species extinction (catastrophism)
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Alfred Wallace
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Separately published his own theory of evolution by natural selection.
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Aristotle
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Believed species were fixed creations arranged by their complexity.
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Linnaeus
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Grouped similar organisms and assigned them Latin names.
