Study Guide 10.1

What did Buffon do to help develop evolutionary theory?

What did E. Darwin do to help develop evolutionary theory?

What did Lamarck do to help develop evolutionary theory?

What two conditions must be true for a group of animals to be considered the same species?

Lamarck’s ideas of evolution are known as the inheritance of acquired characteristics. What was incorrect about his theory of how organisms evolve?

In the 1700s, many people believed that species were fixed and did not change. How did plant hybridization—a type of crossing that could be observed in experiments—help change this view?

Write a description of catastrophism.

Write a description of gradualism.

Write a description of uniformitarianism.

What word refers to traces of an organism that existed in the past?

What is the process of biological change by which descendants come to differ from their ancestors?

Events such as volcanoes, floods, and earthquakes are the basis of what geologic theory?

What geologic theory can be summarized by the phrase “the present is the key to the past”?

Charles Darwin’s poetic grandfather.

Thought that a giraffe’s long neck evolved from reaching high in trees

Grouped living organisms into categories based on what they looked like.

Wrote Historie Naturelle (Natural History) in 1749