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EARNST HAECKEL animal ecologist father of ecology

VICTOR E. SHELFORD community succession

G. EVELYN HUTCHINSON father of modern limnology polymath at Yale n-dimensional niche born in the UK, studied in

Cambridge

HENRY C. COWLES succession in dunes (Lake

Michigan)

CHARLES E. ELTON population ecology invasive species (introduced

species that cause damage to native species)

Eltonian Pyramid of Biomass

EUGENE P. ODUM

father of modern ecology studied under Shelford (U. of

Illinois) wrote first college-level

textbook on ecology established Inst. of Ecology

in U. of Georgia ecosystem energy flow the ecosystem is greater

than the sum of its parts

HOWARD T. ODUM

first complete analysis of natural ecosystem

silver spring model salt marsh-estuaries

ecosystem o euryhaline plants

(tolerates changes in salinity)

o detritus (all organic matter undergoing decomposition)

DAVID SCHINDLER

believed that if nutrients are increased, water quality deteriorates

o proven with lake 226 (cyanobacterial bloom in northern basin)

GEERAT J. VERMEIJ

HS valedictorian, studied at Princeton, PhD at Yale

top malacologist; well-published

editor/ associate editor of Science, Evolution, and Paleobiology

evolutionary arms race suffered from unusual

childhood glaucoma sees gastropod molluscs with

his hands

DR. MICHAEL L. CAIN

AB Biology and math summa cum laude

wrote Evolution part in Campbell

CHARLES DARWIN

wrote The Origin of Species first studied medicine at

Edinburgh and then Theology at Cambridge

THEODOSIUS DOBZHANSKY

evolutionary biologist Russian Christian Orthodox Nothing in biology makes

sense except in the light of evolution.

ARISTOTLE

viewed species as fixed and arranged them on a scala naturae

Scala Naturae and Classification of Species

o Great Chain of Being

CAROLUS LINNAEUS

interpreted adaptations of species as evidence that the Creator has designed each species for a purpose

founder of taxonomy binomial format for naming

(Linnaean system of classification)

JEAN LOPOLD NICOLAS

FRDRIC CUVIER paleontology (study of fossils) catastrophism

JAMES HUTTON

changes in earths surface can result from slow, continuous actions still operating today

CHARLES LYELL

uniformitarianism mechanisms of change are constant over time

strongly influenced Darwin

JEAN-BAPTISTE PIERRE

ANTOINE de MONET CHEVALIER de LAMARCK species evolve through

1) use and disuse of body parts

2) inheritance of acquired characteristics

CAPTAIN ROBERT FITZROY Darwins companion (HMS

Beagle) seaworthy; first to score 10%

in the Royal Navy exam

EMMA WEDGEWOOD

wife of Darwin

JOHN GOULD ornithologist identified Darwins birds

ALFRED RUSSEL WALLACE sent a manuscript to Darwin naturalist who had the same

idea as Darwin (individuals with favorable traits are more likely to survive)

RICHARD BAILEY photographed pigeons that

played an important role in Darwins work

THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS potential for human

population to increase than food supplies and other resources

DR. PETER and ROSEMARY

GRANT went to Daphne Major to

extract blood from finches for DNA analysis

witnessed evolution firsthand

JAMES WATSON

the douchebag whos about to sell his Nobel medal to buy a painting

wrote The Double Helix (which he will also sell btw wth)

FRANCIS CRICK

discovered the DNA structure with Watson (we all know Rosalind Franklin did so nope)

MAURICE WILKINS

won the Nobel Prize with the 2 posers above (not the Grant couple coz theyre kewl) in 1962

EMILE FRISON

Belgian plant geneticist of International Network for the Improvement of Banana and Plantain (INIBAP)

overcome concerns about genetically modified bananas

EDWARD O. WILSON

Lord of the Ants distinguished professor in

Harvard University joined Harvard in 1956 with

James D. Watson memoir The Naturalist proposed the concept of

The Hundred Hearbeats Club

ELIZABETH A. GILBERT

wrote the biography of Geerat Vermeij

REMEDIOS ROMBAOA RODEROS graduated from the University of Birmingham studies gingers one of the spice girls

SUSAN MIDDLETON

takes pictures of endangered animals (e.g. gold-banded hermit)