ANT101H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Catastrophism, Carl Linnaeus, Thomas Robert Malthus
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Ant101: chapter 2 the development of evolutionary. It was also developed by alfred russel wallace: fixity of species, the notion that species once created, can never change; an idea diametrically opposed to theories of biological evolution. It was developed in the middle age with the power system of religious called christianity. Introduced the concept of extinction to explain the disappearance of animals represented by fossils: suggested a variation of a theory known as catastrophism. 2: the (cid:448)ie(cid:449) that the ea(cid:396)th"s geological landscape is the result of violent cataclysmic events. This view was promoted by cuvier: thomas malthus (1766-1834) especially in opposition to lamarck, wrote an essay on the principle of population, which inspired both. Charles darwin and alfred wallace in their separate discoveries of natural selection. Elaborated on by lyell, this theory opposed catastrophism and contributed strongly to the concept of immense geological time. The discovery of natural selection: charles darwin (1809-1882, transmutation, the change of one species to another.
