7 Chapter 15
Charles Darwin
Ideas of Darwin’s time:
Darwin and the Galapagos Islands
The Galapagos Islands
His findings led him to believe that organisms change over time…
Geology ideas of the time…
Georges Cuvier
Catastrophism
Charles Lyell Uniformitarianism
If the earth could change over time…
Jean Baptiste Lamarck
Lamarck’s theory explained how organisms changed BUT that they changed in a lifetime.
Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics
One giraffe stretches its neck more to reach leaves. Over time, the neck becomes longer and then the babies are born with longer necks as well. Theory of Use and Disuse