BIO 3102 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Comparative Anatomy, Inta, Cell Theory
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400 bce 450: greek and roman ages. Roman conquest brought species from around the world. Hippocrates (460-370 bce): started medicine", study of human body. Aristotle (384-322bce): started making inventory of animals in the world. Tried organizing them in some sort of pattern. Scala naturae: the great chain of being - from simplest to most complex (plants-animals- humans-gods); organisms placed in a fixed position on ladder" and cannot change. Species don"t change; species not old; a designer of some sort. Theophrastus (371-287bce): started making inventory of plants (important for medicinal and nutritional purposes. Decides they need to be grouped used characteristics/natural phenomena (based on reproductive structures) Taxonomy: the science of the classification of organisms. Arranged into an ordered system that indicates natural relationships. Constancy of species: - fundamental piece of essentialism. Idea that all the species are the same as they were upon creation during genesis, and that they have not changed whatsoever.
