TAXONOMY

· The Classification of Species

· What is a species? http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art14342.asp

Aristotle on Classification

http://imiloa.wcc.hawaii.edu/krupp/BIOL101/present/lcture05/tsld016.htm

http://www.usoe.k12.ut.us/curr/science/sciber00/7th/classify/sciber/history.htm

The Great Chain of Being

· Or Scala Natura http://www.kheper.net/topics/cosmology/great_chain_of_being.htm

· Medieval idea of a single ordering of all living things

· Species were immutable, extinction impossible

Linnaeus and Taxonomy

· Carl von Linné (1707-1778) http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/linnaeus.html

· Systema Natura (The System of Nature), 1735 http://bertie.ccsu.edu/Phil135/Evolution/Unit10Background/Linnaeus.html

Le Comte de Buffon, 1707-1788

· Georges Buffon – French naturalist and Linnaeus’ greatest rival

· http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/buffon2.html

· http://intranet.woodvillehs.sa.edu.au/pages/resources/maths/History/Bffn.htm

Jean Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829)

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/lamarck.html

· The Inheritance of Acquired Characteristics

· http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/cgi-local/DHI/dhi.cgi?id=dv2-68

How the giraffe got a long neck

http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/inheritance+of+acquired+characteristics

· Organisms strive to fit environment

Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation

· Robert Chambers, 1844

· http://pages.britishlibrary.net/phrenology/vestigesintro.html