The History of Systematics
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- the father of biology
- how did aristotle classified the living things
- a hierarchy system made by aristotle
- father of botany
- what plant did Theophrastus classified?
- he his best known for his comparative anatomical represntation of the skeletons of humans and birds
- he was the first to abandon the blind trust in ancient botany
- his classification system was based in biological nomenclature
- two books by linnaeus
- 7 levels provided by carolus Linnaeus
- he studied mathematics & probability
- he said that organisms can inprove or degenerate into others
- he coined the word "biologie"
- where species are immutable, but creatures may move thru one species to another baded on a motivating force
- he is anti-linnean
- he was a physician
- book Theophrastus wrote
- his classification of animals was neither comprehensive nor entirely consistent but was hierarchical
- his classification were closer to modern keys
- he thought classification were entirely aritifical but still useful
- inspired by scala naturae and divided animal life into 4
- 4 embranchements by georges cuvier
- the branches are representative of archetypes
- naturaphilosophie
- fundamental unity of form for all animals
- vertibrate comparative anatimist
- opposed darwinian evolution
- causative theory of evolution
- family tree other words
- divides darwinian and traditionalists
- proposed family trees
- coined the term morphology
- classification in 5 groups
- what are the 5 groups
- invertebrates called
- fish with tongue
- birds with extended ears
- serially homologuze vertebral elements with vert. skull
- 14 systematists