ANTHRO 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thomas Robert Malthus, Biogeography, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
13 Sep 2016
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Nicholas steno (1628-1686): stratigraphy: when layers of earth are laid down upon one and other, oldest stuff at the bottom, youngest at the top(for the most part) Robert hooke (1635-1703): ided fossils as altered forms of living animals: people thought earth was on 6k years old. Catastrophism: georges cuvier 1769-1832, global catastrophic events like noah"s flood caused extinctions and rebirths. Comte de buffon argued for greater earth"s age based on regular deposition/erosion rates. Uniformitarianism: scotsman james hutton (1726-1797): erosion and deposition happened at regular intervals: takes much longer than 6,000 years. Charles lyell (1797-1875) was a major supporter of uniformitarianism. Carl linnaeus (1707-1778: botanist, physician, naturalist, animals were all related, but still divinely created(religious) Linnaean classification system: nested hierarchy , binomial nomenclature, homo sapiens. Erasmus darwin (1731-1802: physician, philosopher, physiologist, poet, charles darwin"s grandfather, applied uniformitarianism to living organisms, 1st formal theories of evolution: zoonomia, or the laws or organic life . Jean baptist de lamark (1744-1829: process of change.
