People Who Influenced Darwin Flashcards

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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.

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