BIO 1130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon, Georges Cuvier, Zoonomia

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Biology
• Course: BIO 1130
• Professor: Jon Houseman

Document Summary

Many different types of feline, everywhere in the world there are different cat-like predatory animals" and tried to explain why there was such diversity of cat-like things. As organisms dispersed from the garden of eden, the environment that they ended living in changed their essence". The essence can change itself to improve the organism depending on where they were living. Zoonomia (laws of organic life: mostly about humans. The temple of nature: poem about life evolving in the oceans, and it was so small that the microscope could not see it. The life was changing over time and acquiring limbs. Once the vegetation appeared outside of the ocean, the organisms move to land after evolving legs and wings and stuff: linear sequence between organisms. Catastrophic theory: one of his student links extinction to a biblical event (noah"s arc) Extinction: if everything was created at once, why do things disappear, one of the first to use the term.