Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Biology Chapter 10 Test 10.1
- Cardus Linnaeus
- developed
classification
system for all
types of
organisms
known at the
time
- method still used today
- reflected evolutionary
relatioships
- abandoned common belief
of time that organisms
were fixed and did not
change
- some might have
arisen through
hybridization
- crossing that he could
observe through
experiments with
varieties, or species, of
plants
- George Louis Leclerc
de Buffon
- challenged many of
accepted ideas
- Earth was NOT
only 6,000 years
old
- Earth was much
older that this
- Erasmus Darwin
- all living things
were descended
from a common
ancestor
- more complex
forms of life arose
from less-complex
organisms
- idea was
expanded upon
65 years later by
is grandson,
Charles Darwin
- Jean Baptiste
Lamarck
- all organisms
evolved toward
perfection and
complxity
- didn't think
that species
did not
become
extinct
- reasoned they
must have evolved
into different forms
- Catastrophism
- natural disasters
have happened often
during Earth's long
history
- shaped land
forms and caused
species to become
extinct in the
process
- floods, volcanic
eruptions,
earthquakes, etc....
- Gradualism
- proposed by
James Hutton in
the late 1700s
- changes observed
in land forms
result from slow
changes over a
long period of
time
- canyons
carved away
by rivers
- Uniformitarianism
- proposed by Charles Lyell
- Principles of Geology
published in 1830s
- expanded
Hutton's
theory
of
gradualism
- geologic processes that
shape Earth are uniform
through time
- combined Lyell's and
Hutton's observations
- layers of rock in
Earth's surface