Darwin and the History to his Theory of Natural Selection AP Biology Darwin and the History to his Theory of Natural Selection
Charles Darwin Theory of Natural Selection
Darwin’s Book
Carolus Linnaeus Father of Taxonomy
Binomial Nomenclature Example: Humans Homo sapiens Homo is the Genus part. sapiens is the Species part.
Taxonomy of Life
Georges Cuvier Theory of Catastrophism
Examples of fossils
Fossil Formation using water, sediment, and long periods of time
James Hutton Theory of Gradualism
Charles Lyell Theory of Uniformitarianism
Jean Baptiste Lamarck Theory of Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
Thomas Malthus Principles of Population
Malthus’s Hypothesis Life is a struggle to exist