CAS BI 107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: James Ussher, Georges Cuvier, James Hutton
4 Nov 2016
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Office hours: 5 cummington street room 423 mwf 4-5pm. At least two will most likely be on the exam. There"s no need to know the extreme details, but just what their important contributions to science were and potentially how that work influenced darwin"s thinking. Please visit dr. wasserman"s slides on blackboard to help you study. Species destroyed by some kind of catastrophe. Creation occurred on evening of sunday, october 23, 4004 b. c. Earth broke off from sun and cooled, which took ~70,000 years. Id"ed fossil shark teeth, explained how shells could be found on top of mountains. Believed earth was a few thousand years old. Younger rocks on top of older rocks. Small layer of rock may take thousands of years, which meant earth was millions of years old. Uniformitarianism slow processes, vast changes over time. Inheritance of acquired characteristics: believed giraffe got long neck from stretching. Believed extinction did not exist (species continually evolved into living forms)
