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Evolution of Evolution
Macroevolution
Evolution of Evolution
Discovery of Fossils/Principle of Superposition
While examining the teeth of a shark, Steno was
is generally noted for two
struck by their resemblance to certain Steno
stony objects,
called glossopetrae or "tongue stones,"
that were concepts:
important
found in certain rocks. Ancient authorities had
1. sky
theorrecognition
of fossil remains as
suggested that these stones fell from the
from
the moon. Others were of the opinion,evidence
also going of previous life forms; and,
back to ancient times, that fossils naturally grew in
2. the law of superposition….
the rocks.
Steno, however, argued that glossopetrae looked
like shark
teeth because
they were shark teeth, that
Nicholas
Steno (1638-1686)
had come from the mouths of once-living sharks,
and come to be buried in mud or sand that was now
dry land.
Evolution of Evolution
Doctrine of Immutability of Species
Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778)
Doctrine of Catastrophism
Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)
Doctrine of Uniformity/Evolution
Adam Smith (1723-1790)
Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (1744-1829)
Charles Lyell (1797-1875)
Charles Darwin (1809 -1882)
Evolution of Evolution
Voyage of the Beagle (27th of December, 1831-2nd of October, 1836)
His Majesty's (William IV) ship Beagle, a ten-gun brig, under the command
of Captain Fitz Roy, R. N., sailed from Devonport on the 27th of December,
1831
Devonport to Buenos Aires
Strait of Magellan
Galapagos Archipelago
Australia
Mauritius
South Africa to England
Galapagos Islands
Giant Land Tortoises
Sea-going Iguanas
Darwin’s Finches
Evolution of Evolution
Doctrine of Immutability of Species
Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778)
Doctrine of Catastrophism
Georges Cuvier (1769-1832)
Doctrine of Uniformity/Evolution
Adam Smith (1723-1790)
Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck (1744-1829)
Charles Lyell (1797-1875)
Charles Darwin (1809 -1882)
Evolution of Evolution
Voyage of the Beagle (27th of December, 1831-2nd of October, 1836)
Her Majesty's ship Beagle, a ten-gun brig, under the command of Captain
Fitz Roy, R. N., sailed from Devonport on the 27th of December, 1831
Devonport to Buenos Aires
Strait of Magellan
Galapagos Archipelago
Australia
Mauritius
South Africa to England
Galapagos Islands
Giant Land Tortoises
Sea-going Iguanas
Darwin’s Finches