a brief history of evolutionary thought
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A Brief History of Evolutionary Thought. Slides to Accompany Lecture. Ancient Greek philosopher Anaxiamander (611-547 B.C.) and the Roman philosopher Lucretius (99-55 B.C.) conceived of the idea that all living things were related and that they had changed over time. Lucretius. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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A Brief History of Evolutionary Thought
Slides to Accompany Lecture
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Ancient Greek philosopher Anaxiamander (611-547 B.C.) and the Roman philosopher Lucretius (99-55 B.C.) conceived of the idea that all living things were related and that they had changed over time.
Lucretius
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Aristotle’s Great Chain of
Being(Scala Naturae)
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Bishop James Ussher
(as painted between1640-1656) Bishop John
Lightfoot
(b. 1601- d. 1675)
Creation as Calculated from The Bible
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Early Scientific Challenges to Theological Views
John Ray & Species
Galileo Galilei & Challenges to church authority (1564-1642)
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Carolus Linnaeus
Systema Naturae 1758
Systematic Classification
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THE LINNEAN HIERARCHY FOR HUMANS
Phylum Chordata Class Mammalia Order Primates Family Hominidae Genus Homo Species Homo sapiens
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Comte de Buffon
(Georges Louis Leclerc)
1707-1788
Early Ideas about Evolution
Baron Cuvier
1769-1832 Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
1744-1829
Erasmus Darwin
1731-1802
Speices changes through time in response to
environmentHeritable characteristics Catastrophism
Environment, but other mechanisms too
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Understanding the Depth of Time
James Hutton
1726-1797
Charles Lyell
1797 - 1875
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Understanding Populations
Thomas Malthus
1766-1834
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Charles Darwin & Alfred Wallace
How did they arrive at the same conclusions?
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Darwin and Wallace Volumes