MMW 11 Chapter Notes - Chapter Essay 3: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon, Georges Cuvier, Binomial Nomenclature

• School: UCSD
• Department: Making of the Modern World
• Course: MMW 11
• Professor: David Jordan

Document Summary

Carolus linnaeus (aka carl von linn ) created a 4-level system that is still used today (class, order, genus, species) Lacks the ability to account for changes in any plant or animal over time; was intended to represent a changeless world. Thought it unlikely that any species could go extinct ( creationism ); most people believed that everything was created at once. Some animals and plants were only represented by fossils and not by living examples. They were thought to be freaks of nature, or from some undiscovered lands, or planted by. Robert hooke recognized them as remains of creatures that had gone extinct and suggested. Georges cuvier supported hooke"s insight, claiming that those remains could only be from a that this was caused by changes in the environment former world. The world experienced a number of catastrophic events that wiped out several species at various points in history, not just during noah"s flood (like having multiple.