BIOL 1001 Chapter : Chapter 14 Outline
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Evolution is the change over time in the characteristics of a population (not characteristic) The foundation of evolutionary thought developed over centuries. The ideas of evolution were not accepted until after darwin published on the origin of species in. Early biological thought did not include the concept of evolution. Pre-darwinian: all organisms were created simultaneously by god, no change overtime. ): each object on earth was merely a temporary reflection of its divinely inspired. ): arranged all organisms on a linear scale of increasing complexity (the ladder. A timeline of the roots of evolutionary thought. A few scientists speculated that life had evolved. Leclerc/buffon (1707 1788) proposed that some modern species had evolved through natural. Smith (1769 1839), a british surveyer, recognized that certain fossils were always found in the same processes, having originated at creation from a small number of founding species layers of rock. Concluded different types of organisms had lived at different times in the past.
