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Enviro. + Human Ev.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Nicholas Steno | -Father of Stratigraphy -Observations on strata -Superposition -Horizontally -Lateral continuity -Above known as "Steno's Principles" |
| James Hutton | -Father of modern geology -Principle of uniformitarianism processes -Definition for above: processes that are acting today that were acting many years ago (e.g. formation of sand) -wrote "Theory of the Earth" 1788 |
| William Smith | -Principle of Faunal Succession -strata identified by fossils -wrote "Geological Map of Great Britain" |
| Alfred Wegener | -German physicist and meterologist -"The Origin of Continents and Ocean" 1915 |
| Johann Beringer | -Found impressions and molds in limestone 1725 -Turned our fossils carved by his grad students -"lying stones" |
| Charles S. Elton | -wrote "Animal Ecology" 1927 -niche, pyramid of numbers |
| Karl von Linne | -Swedish botanist -binomial nomenclature -Linnaean Hierarchy |
| Georges de Buffon | -biological species concept -link between environment and variation -degeneration from a perfect form -36 volume "Natural History" |
| Georges Cuvier | -Father of vertebrate paleontology -extinction |
| Jean Baptiste de Lamarck | -Change in nature -stages of life: spontaneous generation to extinction -inheritance of acquired characteristics -1809 "Zoological Philosophy" |
| Charles Lyell | -Uniformitarianism -"Principles of Geology" -Eocene, Miocene, Pliocene -Henslow sent these books to Darwin while on Beagle |
| Thomas Malthus | -Economist -Essay on "Principles of Population" 1789 -read by Darwin 1838 |
| Alfred Russell Wallace | -Naturalist -work in Indonesia -read Malthus -letter to Darwin 1858 -had come to same conclusion as Darwin |
| John Henslow | -Botanist and Darwin's mentor |
| Adam Sedgwick | -Geologist and Darwin's mentor |
| Gregor Mendel | -1866 "Experiments on Plant Hybridization" -proceedings of the Brno Natural History Society -Principles of heredity, known as genetics -Darwin's phrase, "blending inheritance" |
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