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a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy
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Scottish geologist who offered an alternative to catastrophism with the proposed idea of gradualism.
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Populations produce more offspring than they can survive
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He is well known for establishing extinction as a fact, being the most influential proponent of catastrophism in geology in the early 19th century also founded vertebrate paleontology
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Theory of heredity and inheritance of acquired traits which states that traits acquired in an organisms life time are passed to offspring
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Published principles of geology, He was a geologist who incorporated Hutton's gradualism into the theory of uniformitarianism which meant that the earth was millions of years old
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English naturalist, established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.
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English naturalist known for independently proposing a theory of evolution due to natural selection that prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own theory.
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Mendel demonstrated that the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants follows particular patterns
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He is most notable for his theory of continental drift, which hypothesized that the continents were slowly drifting around the Earth.
