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Enviro. + Human Ev.

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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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