Scientific History

Question 1

Plato

Answer 1

Forms

Question 2

Aristotle

Answer 2

Natural scale

Question 3

Linnaeas

Answer 3

Father of taxonomy, classified 1000’s of organisms

Question 4

Cuvier

Answer 4

Father of paleontology, began scientific study of fossils

Question 5

Lyell and Hutton

Answer 5

Established geology as a science. Advocates for uniformitarianism. Earths geology is the result of long periods of slow and steady change. Not just cataclysmic events.

Question 6

Lyell and Hutton’s 2 Big Ideas

Answer 6

1. Small changes can lead to big changes given enough time.
2. Earth must be very old.

Question 7

Why did everyone think that Earth was very young?

Answer 7

The old testament dated earth to be about 6000 years old. Radioactivity made earth hotter than an old earth would appear.

Question 8

Lamarck

Answer 8

Gave the first comprehensive hypothesis/theory of evolution

Question 9

Lamarcks Theory of Evolution

Answer 9

Use and disuse leads to more or less prominent traits. Requires inheritence of aquired characteristics, though evolution was steady process toward greater complexity and better adaptation.

Question 10

Erasmus Darwin

Answer 10

Thought all life had roots in more simple organisms

Question 11

Alfred Wallace

Answer 11

Independently developed a natural selection theory.