a brief history of evolutionary thought slides to accompany lecture

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