Biology scientists evolution

Proposed origin of life from gradual change.

• All living things could be placed on a scale at of nature
• The scale was a ladder of complexity and life did not change

• Sweedish botanist that tried to classify all of life
• Thought hhis system would show the diversity of "God's word"

• Father of Palentology
• The deeper he found fossils the more dissimilar they were to life today.
• cuvier believed that each strate was represendet by a catastrophe (catastrophism)

Geologist who believed that the earth was shaped gradually

Also a geologist who adds that the geological process have not changed over time (uniformitaranism)

• the more an animal used a structure, the more it improved; unused structures waste away
• Ideahs were disproved because individuals cannot evolve

• Started studying medicine but quit to study theology
• Spent time on the HMS Beagle traveling and documenting many species
• PUBLISHED: ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION in 1859
• Book does not talk about human evolution

• similar conclusions as Darwin
• Convinced Darwin to Publish book