BIOL 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Great Chain Of Being, Georges Cuvier, James Hutton
13 Jan 2017
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Descent with modification: a darwinian view of life . A new era of biology began in 1859 when charles darwin published the origin of. The origin of species focused biologists" attention on the great diversity of organisms. Darwin noted that current species are descendants of ancestral species. Evolution can be defined by darwin"s phrase of descent with modification. The darwinian revolution challenged traditional views of a young earth inhabited by unchanging species. The greek philosopher aristotle viewed species as fixed and arranged them on a scala naturae. On a ladder of increasing complexity, linear. The old testament holds that species were individually designed by god and therefore perfect. Carolus linnaeus interpreted organismal adaptations as evidence that the creator had designed each species for a specific purpose. Linnaeus was the founder of taxonomy, the branch of biology concerned with classifying organisms. He developed the binomial format for naming species (for example, homo sapiens) and a nested classification system.
