Chapter 22 - Historical Figures

Who had early ideas on species being unchanging, arranged in a "scale of nature", and were perfectly designed by God?

Who proposed gradualism, influencing Darwin's thinking about slow geological and biological change?

Who wrote on population growth that influenced Darwin's ideas on survival and reproduction?

Who independently conceived a theory of natural selection, motivating Darwin to publish his work?

Who developed the theory of evolution by natural selection & wrote On the Origin of Species?

Who proposed early ideas of evolution including the inheritance of acquired traits? (Use & disuse)

Who developed the binomial nomenclature system and a hierarchical classification of species?

Who advocated for uniformitarianism in geology, which shaped Darwin's understanding of Earth's age?