History of Classification
Kenia Diaz Period 3 Zoology Lahee
350 BC Aristotle
- classification of things based on similarity and resemblance
- Knowledge can be collected and ordered
- Characteristics are inherited
Pliny the Elder 23 - 79
- he was inspired by Aristotle
- Classification of things based on similarity and resemblance
Konrad Gesner 1516 - 1565
- Information emerges from collecting, organizing, and drawing specimens
John Ray 1627- 1707
- regarded as one of the earliest of English parson - naturalist
- his classification of plants in his history
Robert Hooke 1635 - 1703
- Knowledge comes from close observation and visual description
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek 1632 - 1723
- Knowledge comes from close observation and visual description
Carolus Linnaeus 1707 - 1778
- Classification of things based on reproduction and relationships
James Hutton 1726 - 1797
- Geological process occurring today are similar to those that have always occurred
- small changed over great amount of time produce significant transformations
- earth is much other than previously though
George Gaylord Simpson 1902 - 1984
- one of the greatest and most influential paleontologist
- played a role in developing the understanding of intercontinental migrations of extinct mammals