Charles Lyell & Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
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Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell was born in 1797, and died in
1875
Charles Lyell was a lawyer and Geologist,
known for his sizable contributions to the
field.
He formulated a theory called
Uniformitarianism with the help of James
Hutton.
James Hutton
James Hutton was a Scottish geologist, physician and
naturalist born in 1726
He is known popularly as “The father of modern geology”
He was responsible for sizable contributions to the field of
geology such as: Uniformitarianism & Plutonism
Uniformitarianism
This was a theory created by Charles Lyell
and James Hutton, a Geologist like Lyell
Geological changes are slow continuous
rather than catastrophic, the small
changes would start to build over time
into much greater changes in the land.
Contrary to the current (at that time)
belief that the earth was shaped quickly
by violent events.
Key Points of Uniformitarianism
This was one of the first theories of geological change that
suggested earth was more than 6000 years old
When James Hutton first came up with the theory it wasn’t
recognized for some time until Charles Lyell made revisions
and publicized it more.
To this day many of the key points of this theory still hold true,
especially the aspects of geological change.
Charles Darwin & Charles Lyell
Charles Darwin was also influenced greatly by Charles
Lyell and his theory of uniformitarianism.
He thought that even though the theory was expressed
about geological features that it could also hold true to the
evolution of populations.
This turned out to have some truth in it. Because just as
land living organisms change very slowly in small steps.
Uniformitariansim Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9iuiBPc0tE
Note: He sounds like Crocodile Dundee…
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was a
Biologist born in 1744
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck outlined
his ideas about changes in
species over time by comparing
there current forms with their
fossil forms
Inheritance of acquired
characteristics
Lamarck hypothesized that the organisms would become
progressively better adapted to their environments. Ex:
The giraffe getting a progressively long neck in order to
feed off trees.
Inheritance of acquired characteristics: the idea that
characteristics acquired doing an organisms lifetime can
be passed on to its offspring
Acceptance of the Theory
Many people at the time didn’t accept Lamarck’s theory
because they believed that species stayed the same and
never changed.
This was because at the time there was very little
knowledge of cell biology and how adaptive they really
were.
This belief would be more extensively disproved by
Charles Darwin.
Charles Darwin and Lamarck
Charles Darwin, who created the generally accepted
theory of evolution by natural selection found there to be
a lot of truth in what Lamarck had to say.
He eventually used a slightly altered version of Lamarck’s
theory as he created the theory of evolution.
There is no doubt that Lamarck greatly influenced Charles
Darwin and contributed a great deal towards what we now
know as the theory of evolution.
Lamarck Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HBdxDBqfHc&featur
e=related
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