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BLUEPRINT OF LIFE THE HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THEORIES OF EVOLUTION 1) Match the numbers in the left hand column of the table with the letters in the right hand column. Use your results to de-code the mystery word, below, which is something Darwin believed all species have in common. 1. 2. 3. 4. A 1. Charles Darwin (1809-1882) 2. Special creation 3. Georges Buffon (1707-1788) 4. Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) 5. James Hutton (1726-1797) 6. Aristotle (384-322 BC) 7. Georges Cuvier (1769-1832) 8. Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829) 9. Charles Lyell (1797-1875) 18 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. B C. Suggested that species might undergo some changes in the course of time. He believed that these changes took place by a process of degeneration. E. Stated that species have historical connections with one another, that animals may change in response to their environment and that their offspring may inherit these changes. S. Proposed in the theory of uniformitarianism that the earth had been formed gradually over many years. This provided enough time for evolutionary changes to have taken place. N. This theory stated that all living things were the products of a divine creation and that most were created for the service of mankind. A. Suggested that the many species on earth have evolved from a common ancestor by the process of natural selection. O. Put forward the theory of `catastrophism’ in which species became extinct by a series of catastrophes and new species arose to take their places. T. Believed that organisms had always existed and that all living things were part of a hierarchy (`Scala Naturae’) that began with simple organisms and culminated with man at the top. S. A geologist who produced evidence that the earth has had a long history. He also opposed the idea of `catastrophism’. R. Believed that all species were descended from other species. This evolution occurs through the inheritance of `acquired characteristics’. TITAN EDUCATION - BIOLOGY