Evolutionary Biology
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- Distinguished homology from analogy
- Richard Owen
- Emphasis on a single origin
- Erasmus Darwin
- Darwin's source, wrote textbooks
- William Paley
- World covered with water. Plants and animals came from the mud.
- Anaximander
- Four element concept. Initially all organs
- Empedocles
- Estimated the age of the earth through the Bible
- James Ussher
- Classifications
- Alexander von Humboldt
- Binomial nomenclature
- Carolus Linneaus
- Species were fixed, scale of increasing complexity
- Aristotle
- Natural Selection, descent with modification
- Charles Darwin
- Use and disuse. Attributes gained are passed on to offspring.
- Jean-Baptist Lamarck
- Catastrophism, Extinction
- Georges Cuvier
- Geologic features formed by current mechanisms (gradualism)
- James Hutton
- Uniformitarianism
- Charles Lyell
- Catalyst for the publication of Darwin's work.
- Alfred Russell Wallace