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THE HISTORY OF EVOLUTIONARY THOUGHT
Name: _________________________
Read Chapter 22, pages 438-441
1. What were the two key ideas put forward by Darwin’s book On the Origins of
Species?
2. What were the prevailing traditional cultural ideas about life when Darwin’s
book was published?
3. How did Aristotle view species and their relationships with each other?
4. As the geologic history of life was uncovered, how did the French
paleontologist Georges Cuvier interpret its findings?
5. How did the geologists James Hutton and Charles Lyell interpret geologic
history in contrast to Cuvier?
6. Describe Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck’s view of biological evolution.