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Evolution Scientists
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Linnaeus | binomial nomenclature |
| DeBuffon | Believed the earth was older than 6,000 years |
| Erasmus Darwin | Proposed the theory of a common ancestor |
| Hutton | Gradualism |
| Lamarack | an organism can pass on a characteristic it acquired during it's life time |
| Curvier | Catastrophism |
| Lyell | Uniformitarianism |
| Charles Darwin | Natural Selection |
| Binomial Nomenclature | The way we categorize animals today |
| Gradualism | the earth changes slowly |
| Catastrophism | volcanoes, floods, and other disasters caused the appearance of new animals |
| Uniformitarianism | The geological process that shape earth throughout time are the same |
| Natural Selection | Animals with beneficial mutations have more offspring and pass on that mutation |