BIOL 180 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Goose Bumps, Special Creation, Georges Cuvier
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In the nineteenth century, researchers began discovering fossils bones, structures, etc, that were unlike any known animal or plant, and insisted that the relatable species would be found in unexplored regions of the earth. As more diversity was discovered, this argument became less plausible. Extinct species - species that no longer exist. Baron georges cuvier publishes a analysis that focuses on the fossils of large terrestrial animals such as. He said that it is very unlikely that these species would be discovered, so he convinced scientists that they were probably extinct. Darwin used this information to say that species are. Not static, immutable entities, unchanged since the moment of special creation. He said that if species have gone extinct, then the array of species living on. Long before darwin published his theory, researchers said that there were resemblances between fossils found in the rocks underlying regions and the living species succeeding them in the same areas.
