KIN 2501 : KIN 2501 Test 1 Greece Ancient Olympics

• School: LSU
• Department: Kinesiology: Professional Courses/Basic Activity Courses
• Course: KIN 2501
• Professor: All

Document Summary

Georges cuvier: theory of catastrophism, in the past there was violent, geological, and climatic events that caused the extinction of species in the affected areas. After the catastrophic event subsided, species from neighboring areas migrated into the areas. These immigrant species were similar to those that went extinct but not identical. Charles lyell: theory of uniformitarianism, forces acting today that shape the earth are the same forces that acted in the past if this was true, the earth is a lot older than we think. Thomas malthus: essay on the principle of population, argued that population size increases exponentially whereas food resources increase linearly, causes competition for scarce resources. Those with favorable traits will survive and produce more offspring overtime, there will be an increase in the frequency of the favorable traits in the population. Alfred russell wallace: collected specimens and sold them, also proposed species change by natural selection, darwin and wallace agreed on the same theory.