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| prove heliocentric theory: tried before court as a heretic by Pope Gregory IX: used the scientific method |
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| tried to clear country of heretics |
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| polish philosopher: heliocentric theory |
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| geneticist; said that "nothing in biology makes any sense except in the light off evolution" |
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| believed in two worlds; explained variation among same species as deviations/imperfections of ideal forms; illusionism |
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| Plato's student; one of the 1st naturalists; simple to complex; scala naturae; immutable; Aristotelian logic |
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| said "Cease to be ruled by dogmas and authorities. Got out and look" |
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| Father of Modern Taxonomy; Swedish physician; Species Plantarum (botany); Systema Naturae (zoology) |
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| Father of Paleontology; French anatomist; Paris Basin; immutable; in geologic past, catastrophic events caused mass extinction of living things; new migrated in; Catastrophism |
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| principle of Gradualism; Scottish Geologist; can see change just by going outside; occur slowly and continuously over time |
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| Uniformitarianism; Scottish geologist; geologic processes are so uniform that they balance themselves out over time; can only see results; geologic processes have not changed over time; Mt. St. Helens |
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| French; tried to explain causes of evolution; curator of invertebrate specimens at Natural History Museum; marine mollusks; use/disuse of body parts, inheritance of acquired characteristics |
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| CD's grandfather; wrote on botany/zoology; possibility of common descent |
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| CD's father; doctor; autocratic/doctoral; fat |
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| CD's botany teacher; inseparable, recommended him for HMS Beagle |
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| CD's geology teacher; taught geological collecting |
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| CD's uncle; Emma's dad; reason to go on HMS Beagle |
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| bipolar captain of HMS Beagle; disagreed with CD's evolution theory; avid Christian |
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| studied Galapagos finches on island; discovered natural selection diversion can occur very rapidly |
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| An Essay of the Principle of Population; famine, pestilence, and war are limits of population |
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| botanist; CD sent his manuscript to him and he advised CD that ideas would have major impact on him and his family |
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| sent manuscript to CD on evolution through natural selection; gave joint presenntation July 1, 1858 to Royal Linnean Society of London |
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| speculated that peppered moth morphs changed because of pollution and camouflage |
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| Holland; going to publish genetics work, but found Mendel's paper |
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| Germany; going to publish genetics work, but found Mendel's paper |
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| Austria; going to publish genetics work, but found Mendel's paper |
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| published the almost complete evolutionary history of the horse |
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| Niles Eldridge and Steven Gould |
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| explained gaps in evolution through punctuated equilibrium; fits and starts; stasis |
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| Reginald Crundall Punnett |
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| wanted to address current objections to Mendel's work and explains why dominant alleles do not take precedence in a population |
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| physician; published same expression as Hardy |
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| published same expression as Hardy/Weinburg five years earlier |
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| "if you've seen one alligator, you've seen them all" |
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| "if you've seen one redwood tree, you've seen them all"; going to appoint Watt to be secretary of interior |
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| religious beliefs that all resources available should be used |
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| set up research of the long-tailed widowed birds |
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| published Student's t-distribution; worked in brewery |
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| defined uses for Student's t-test |
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