[1] History

• Proposed a naming system for plants and animals

  Carolus Linnaeus or Carl von Linne
• Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck:

  • Writer of the Philosophie Zoologique
  • Believed that there were multiple origins of life
  • Assumes that changes arise due to need
• Charles Darwin

  • Naturalist of the HMS Beagle voyage
  • Descent with modification
  • Natural selection
• Alfred Russell Wallace

  • Collected specimens from Amazon to Malay Archipelago
  • Arrived at the same notion of natural selection as Darwin
• Descent with Modification

  • Single origin of life
  • Lineages with different forms arose via splitting from existing lineages

  Natural selection

  • Variations exist in populations
  • Useful variations will be preserved and passed onto offspring