Evolutionary thought

• Evolutionary thought - recognition that species change over time by tracing the development through intellectual thought
• Taxonomy - universal language
• Carolus Linnaeus - system of nature genius and species develop the method of binomial nomenclature for classifying plants and animals.
• System of nature - diversity of life
• Binomial nomenclature - naming of organisms
• Jean baptist Lamarck - propose the theory of inheritance of acquired characteristic.
• Jean baptist Lamarck - there's a dynamic relationship between species and environment recognize that only traits influenced by genetic information can be inherited
• Use and disuse theory - species cannot live if they don't adopt in environment
• Jean baptist Lamarck - he coined the term biology to refer to the studies of organisms.
• Jean baptist Lamarck - suggested that a trait acquired by an animal during its lifetime can be passed on to offspring
• George cuvier - he introduced the concept of catastrophism to explain the disappearance of animals represented by fossils
• George cuvier - introduce the concept of extinction
• Thomas Malthus - scientist work inspired both charles darwin and alfred in their discoveries of natural selection
• Thomas Malthus - he wrote the principle of population means human population can double in size in 25 years
• Charles Lyell - is considered the founder of modern geology and proposed the theory of uniformitarianism
• Charles Lyell - propose that geological processes observed in the present are the same as those that occurred in the past
• Charles Lyell - demonstrated that those forces contribute in the past that those natural forces are consistent and constant
• James Hutton - recognize that change gradually over a long periods of time
• Gradualism - slow process or movement means that it's slow to change over time
• Charles Darwin - develop the theory of natural selection and author of on the origin of species
• Theology - study or religious things
• Charles Darwin - graduated botany and geology which he was interested
• HMS Vigle - the ship Charles Darwin used to travel and it took 5 years
• Charles Darwin - he stop over at galapagos island and discovered the finches on the island compared to mainland
• Emma wedgewood - the wife and the one who Charles Darwin married to
• On Dec 1859 he completed and discovered the book on the origins of species
• On the origin of species - means they evolved from other species through the mechanism of natural selection