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A Brief History of Evolutionary Thought Slides to Accompany Lecture

Ancient Greek philosopher Anaxiamander ( B.C.) and the Roman philosopher Lucretius (99-55 B.C.) conceived of the idea that all living things were related and that they had changed over time. Lucretius

Aristotle’s Great Chain of Being (Scala Naturae)

Bishop James Ussher (as painted between ) Bishop John Lightfoot (b d. 1675) Creation as Calculated from The Bible

Early Scientific Challenges to Theological Views John Ray & Species Galileo Galilei & Challenges to church authority ( )

Carolus Linnaeus Systema Naturae 1758 Systematic Classification

THE LINNEAN HIERARCHY FOR HUMANS Phylum Chordata Class Mammalia Order Primates Family Hominidae Genus Homo Species Homo sapiens

Comte de Buffon (Georges Louis Leclerc) Early Ideas about Evolution Baron Cuvier Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Erasmus Darwin Speices changes through time in response to environment Heritable characteristics Catastrophism Environment, but other mechanisms too

Understanding the Depth of Time James Hutton Charles Lyell

Understanding Populations Thomas Malthus

Charles Darwin & Alfred Wallace How did they arrive at the same conclusions?

Darwin and Wallace Volumes

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