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| Swedish naturalist and explorer who was the first to frame principles for defining natural genera and species of organisms and to create a uniform system for naming them (binomial nomenclature). |
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| a major participant in the modern evolutionary synthesis, contributing Tempo and mode in evolution |
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| one of the 20th century's leading evolutionary biologists. He was also a renowned taxonomist, tropical explorer, ornithologist, and historian of science.[3] His work contributed to the conceptual revolution that led to the modern evolutionary synthesis of Mendelian genetics, systematics, and Darwinian evolution, and to the development of the biological species concept. |
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| Non human primates cannot learn language. |
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| humans wired to develop language |
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| conducted mothering experiments with clothed and wire mother. |
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| founder of population genetics |
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| English geneticist who studied kin selection and altruism, and developed Hamilton’s Rule |
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| Dutch primatologist who did studies of planned social strategies in chimpanzees at Arnhem Zoo |
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| British archaeologist who discovered many ancient hominin fossils at Olduvai Gorge |
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| British primatologist who studied chimpanzees at Gombe Stream National Park, found that chimpanzees have culture |
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| American zoologist who studied mountain gorillas in Rwanda, murdered for her extreme conservation efforts |
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| primatologist who studied orangutans in Borneo |
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| Danish antiquarian who developed the “three age” system |
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| British amateur archaeologist implicated in the Piltdown hoax |
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| Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
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| French philosopher who contributed to the discoveries of Piltdown man and Peking man, developed the idea of the “omega point” |
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| Scottish writer who wrote Sherlock Holmes |
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| British zoologist who may have been involved in executing the Piltdown hoax |
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| American physical chemist who developed radiocarbon dating |
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| Swiss paleontologist who first proposed the concept of ice ages |
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| American anthropologist noted for his work on early anthropoid evolution, studies at Fayum |
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| a layer of tissue in the eye of some mammals that reflects light back onto the retina, allowing for superior night vision |
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| branch of geology which studies rock layers and layering. |
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a geological signature, usually a thin band, dated to 66.0 Ma(million years) ago. K is the traditional abbreviation for the Cretaceous period, and Pg is the abbreviation for the Paleogene period.
Age of Mammals- Cenozoic era, extinction of many groups allowed mammals to greatly diversify. |
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| the theory that all human races descended from a common ancestor |
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| a derived trait shared by two taxa and their most recent common ancestor |
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| systematic naming system of organisms developed by Carolus Linnaeus |
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| one of the basic units of taxonomic classification |
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