1. A Brief History of Evolutionary Thought Slides to Accompany Lecture

2. 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

3. Aristotle’s Great Chain of Being (Scala Naturae)

4. Bishop James Ussher (as painted between1640-1656) Bishop John Lightfoot (b. 1601- d. 1675) Creation as Calculated from The Bible

5. Early Scientific Challenges to Theological Views John Ray & Species Galileo Galilei & Challenges to church authority (1564-1642)

6. Carolus Linnaeus Systema Naturae 1758 Systematic Classification

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

8. Comte de Buffon (Georges Louis Leclerc) 1707-1788 Early Ideas about Evolution Baron Cuvier 1769-1832 Jean-Baptiste Lamarck 1744-1829 Erasmus Darwin 1731-1802 Speices changes through time in response to environment Heritable characteristics Catastrophism Environment, but other mechanisms too

9. Understanding the Depth of Time James Hutton 1726-1797 Charles Lyell 1797 - 1875

10. Understanding Populations Thomas Malthus 1766-1834

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

12. Darwin and Wallace Volumes