BIO 126 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Thomas Robert Malthus, Wallace Line, Heredity
11 Mar 2016
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Tried to organize life: scala naturae (natural ladder) Purpose in nature (teleology: animals adapt so they can perform a certain function. Not valid way of thinking about adaptations. Believed the earth was only 6,000 years old. Supported special creation because there was not enough time to evolve. Binomial nomenclature: every organism gets two names: genus and species. Created a nested hierarchy: large groups organized into smaller subsets based off of similar characteristics. Founded the science of paleontology: idea of extinction (believed in special creation, things don"t change) Must be a reason for extinction, catastrophes (noah"s flood) Uniformitarianism: erosion, flooding, etc. that causes small changes, over time will give rise to larger changes. Supported hutton, yet still believed in special creation: wrote principles of geology . Wrote histoire naturelle (44 vol. encyclopedia: talked about morphological similarities between men and apes, but said that they were not the same due to intelligence capacity.
