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Scala Nature-Gret Chain of Being-All living things in a heirarchy, plants on bottom humans on top
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Life started in the sea and moved to land
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Life started as slime at bottom of ocean.
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Everything is formed without changing because of divine will.Spontanous generation can happen. Living things formed from inorganic matter.
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Fixed date of creation as 4004b.c
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Formulated the laws of nature
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Developed catagories of species
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Believed divine will but created first hybridazed plants
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Life forms are not fixed
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Systeme de la Nature-Theory of the nature of heredity
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philosophical paalingesis- catastrophies changed the evolution of organisms.
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Organisims came from single ancestral source
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Improved traits could be passed to ofspring, but would not create a new speciess.
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Life has one common ancestor
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Inheritance of acquired characteristics-man could pass all characteristics he acquired onto offspring
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Catastrophisim- Natural disasters created and ended species
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Natural selection was the result of differnt skin colors in people
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History of the Inducttive Sciences-From earliest to the present time- species do not transition from one to another
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Essay on Classification-Any theory that ignored design was wrong
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Proved catastrophisim wrong. -Uniformitarianism-the present is the key to understanding the past
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God created all living things in mature form
