BIO 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon, Erasmus Darwin

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIO 1130
• Professor: Jon Houseman

Document Summary

He says that everything arrived on one place and then as they moved around they evolved different essence kind of due to their environment first to notice that variations around the world due to environment. Erasmus darwin: change over time in the aquatic life. He thought about fossils and said some animals disappeared through extinction and the world changes over time. Charles lyell studied rocks and saw the rock cycle. Saw they were all similar so it was the start of the continental drift theory. Jean- baptiste lamarck he came up with transmutation of species to explain how species change over time. He made the graphs that are straight lines saying that objects would change in shape and complexity over time. Transmutation (not baptiste"s) is the change in essence. Darwin spent 20 to 30 years developing his theory and wallace comes along with the same one theorized in less time.