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Evolution test
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Aristotle's beliefs | species were fixed creations - arranged by their complexity, ideas lasted 2000 years |
| Linnaeus | first to group similar organisms and assign them latin names |
| two word name | genus species, binomial nomenclature |
| Charles Lyell | uniformitarianism, (geologic processes still changing earth) |
| Georges Cuvier | species extinction (catastrophism) |
| thomas malthus | struggle for existence (resources) |
| james hutton | gradualism |
| lamarck | inheritence of acquired characteristics, law of use and disuse |
| alfred russel wallace | organisms evolved from common ancestors |
| gradualism | changes in earth's crust due to slow continuous processes |
| uniformitarianism | geological processes at uniform rates, earth is millions of years old not a few thousand |