Chapter 22 Concept Map 2/4

Nodos de los diagramas

• Non-Evolutionary Thought

• Plato & Aristotle

• Creationism

• Challenges to these theories

• Hierarchy of life

• Limited Information & Experiences

• Humans are at top

• "Most Perfect"

• No recorded change/evolution in species

• Travel was not common

• Limited Scientific Knowledge

• Creation story in bible

• All life would have had to have been present/created at the same time

• Paleontology & Geology

• Colonialism

• Discovery of new species

• Earth's Age

• Fossils

• Theories explaining presence

• Cuvier (Paleontologist)

• Hutton & Lyell (Geologists)

• Gradualism

• Uniformitarianism

• Slow processes can produce large changes eventually

• observed processes are consistent across space and time

• Idea that Earth is infinitely old