a brief history of evolutionary thought slides to accompany lecture
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Aristotle’s Great Chain of Being (Scala Naturae)TRANSCRIPT
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
Aristotle’s Great Chain of
Being(Scala Naturae)
Bishop James Ussher(as painted between1640-1656)
Bishop John Lightfoot
(b. 1601- d. 1675)
Creation as Calculated from The Bible
Early Scientific Challenges to Theological Views
John Ray & Species
Galileo Galilei & Challenges to church authority (1564-1642)
Carolus Linnaeus
Systema Naturae 1758
Systematic Classification
THE LINNEAN HIERARCHY FOR HUMANS
Phylum Chordata Class Mammalia Order Primates Family Hominidae Genus Homo Species Homo sapiens
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
Understanding the Depth of Time
James Hutton
1726-1797
Charles Lyell
1797 - 1875
Understanding Populations
Thomas Malthus1766-1834
Charles Darwin & Alfred Wallace
How did they arrive at the same conclusions?
Darwin and Wallace Volumes