10 People

• Who is Charles Darwin?

  Naturalists who proposed Natural Selection and Artificial Selection, companion of Robert Fitzroy on Beagle route, studied finches
• Who is Charles Lyell?

  proposed uniformitarianism: geological processes had not changed throughout Earth’s history, that they were uniform (Slow processes can create large changes over time) (wrote Principles of Geology)
• Who is James Hutton?

  proposed that geologic land forms (e.g., canyons) could be explained by mechanisms currently operating (gradualism - profound change results from slow, continuous processes) (meant earth had to be older than 6k yrs)
• Who is Jean-Baptiste LaMarck?

  Naturalist who proposed that species evolved by the inheritance of acquired traits (God works towards perfection)
• Who is Carolus Linneaus?

  developed the taxonomic classification system which recognized a hierarchical pattern of relatedness among species (looks like basal stem)
• Who is Thomas Malthus?

  Wrote "An Essay on the Principle of Population" and applied to to humans but Darwin used the ideas to living things. More deaths than survival, competition for limited resources (why some pop. live and others die)
• Who is George Mendel?

  Created two laws (segregation and independent assortment)
• Who are Rosemary & Peter Grant?

  British married couple who are evolutionary biologists at Princeton University and who studied ground finches
• Who is Micheal Behe?

  Creator of the "Intelligence Designer" and wrote "Darwin's Black Box"
• Who is George Curvier?

  observed that the fossil record shows that organisms changing over time (less complex to more complex)