BIO 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Uniformitarianism, Rock Cycle, Geologic Time Scale

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIO 1130
• Professor: Gambarotta Sandro

Document Summary

Study of the geographic distribution of plants and animals. Concerned not only with habitation patterns but also with the factors responsible for variations in distributions. The theory that worldwide catastrophes that are short-lived, violent and sudden have destroyed mass amounts of species and have changed the face of the earth. It is often linked to baron georges cuvier who deduced that the extinction of the animals of whose fossils he found (example irish elk) was due to great (cid:272)atastrophes that destro(cid:455)ed these a(cid:374)i(cid:373)als. The theor(cid:455) of (cid:862)noah"s ark(cid:863) is a(cid:374) e(cid:454)a(cid:373)ple, a(cid:374)d is a (cid:449)a(cid:455) to (cid:271)a(cid:272)k up the earth as being young* Father of paleontology (study of fossils to determine organisms" evolution and interactions with each other and their environments) Major figure in natural sciences; specifically, comparative anatomy (study of the comparison anatomies of different species) and phylogeny (evolution of species) Went on a trip on the beagle and toured the world for five years collecting specimens.