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Descent with Modification
History of Evolution
Plato (427 – 347 B.C.) – Two Worlds
Aristotle (384 – 322 B.C.) – Scale of Nature
Judeo-Christian – Old Testament
Natural Theology (1700’s) – Creator’s plan
studying biology
Linnaeus (1707 – 1778) - Taxonomy
History of Evolution
Cuvier (1769 – 1832)
Father of Paleontology
Catastrophism
History of Evolution
Hutton (1726 – 1797)
Gradualism
• Very small processes
can make large changes
over time
History of
Evolution
Charles Lyell (1797 –
1875)
Uniformitarianism
• Processes today occur
like they did in the past
Principles of Geology
(1830-1833)
• Earth must be very old
History of Evolution
Lamark (1809)
Inheritance of
Acquired Traits
Darwinian Revolution
Medical School
Clergyman
HMS Beagle
Darwinian Revolution
HMS Beagle (1831 –
1836) – chart the coast
of South America
Captain Robert
FitzRoy – Companion
Darwinian Revolution
Galapagos Islands
Thomas Malthus
An Essay on the
Principle of
Population 6th ed.
(1826)
Darwinian Revolution
On The Origin of
Species by Means of
Natural Selection or
the Preservation of
Favoured Races in the
Struggle For Life
(1858)
Darwinian Revolution
Why did it take 22
years to publish?
Darwinian Revolution
Alfred Wallace
(1823 – 1913)
East Indies
Darwinian Revolution
Two main Points
Descent with
Modification
Natural Selection
Evidence of Evolution
Taxonomy
Evidence of Evolution
Fossil Record
Evidence of Evolution
Biogeography
Evidence of Evolution
Comparative Anatomy
Homologous Structures
Evidence of Evolution
Comparative
Embryology
Evidence of Evolution
Comparative Molecular
Biology