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Exam One
People
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Anthropology
Undergraduate 1
09/28/2008

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Carl von Linne (Carolus Linneaus)
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"Father of taxonomy," created binomial nomenclature
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Georges Cuvier
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Pioneered paleontology and comparative anatomy
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Charles Lyell
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Geologist, Uniformitarianism
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Gregor Mendel
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Monk, provided mechanism for Darwin's theory of evolution
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Georges-Louis Buffon
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Old earth, descent from common ancestor, Great Chain = continuum, species not neccisarly unchainging, forced to recant in 1751 by the church which laid out the arguements for species change.
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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First explicit evolutionist, believed in the inheritance of acquired characteristics
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Charles Darwin
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"Father of Evolutionary Biology," proposed natural selection, did NOT invent evolution but just created a mechanism for how it could occur
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