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    The document provides a brief history of evolutionary thought from ancient Greek philosophers to Charles Darwin. It mentions that Anaximander and Lucretius conceived of the idea that living things were related and changed over time. It then discusses Aristotle's great chain of being, biblical creationism, challenges to theology from scientists like Galileo, the development of systematic classification by Linnaeus, and early ideas about evolution from thinkers like Buffon and Lamarck. Finally, it introduces James Hutton and Charles Lyell's understanding of deep time, Thomas Malthus' work on populations, and how Darwin and Wallace independently developed the theory of evolution by natural selection.

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    A Brief History of

    Evolutionary Thought

    Slides to Accompany Lecture


    Ancient Greek philosopher Anaxiamander (611-
    547 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)
    Creation as Calculated from The Bible

    Bishop James Ussher


    Bishop John
    (as painted between1640-1656)
    Lightfoot
    (b. 1601- d. 1675)
    Early Scientific Challenges to
    Theological Views

    John Ray & Galileo Galilei &


    Species Challenges to church
    authority (1564-1642)
    Systematic Classification

    Carolus Linnaeus
    Systema Naturae
    1758
    THE LINNEAN HIERARCHY FOR
    HUMANS
            PhylumChordata                
    Class Mammalia
    Order Primates
    Family Hominidae
    Genus Homo     
    Species Homo sapiens
    Early Ideas about Evolution
    Speices changes through
    Catastrophism
    time in response to Heritable characteristics
    environment

    Comte de Buffon
    (Georges Louis Leclerc)
    Baron Cuvier
    1707-1788 Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
    1769-1832
    Environment, but 1744-1829
    other mechanisms
    too

    Erasmus Darwin
    1731-1802
    Understanding the Depth of Time

    James Hutton Charles Lyell


    1726-1797 1797 - 1875
    Understanding Populations

    Thomas Malthus
    1766-1834
    Charles Darwin & Alfred Wallace

    How did they arrive at the same conclusions?


    Darwin and Wallace Volumes

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