Evolutionary Thought Quiz

Who developed the method of binomial nomenclature for classifying plants and animals?

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

• Georges Cuvier

• Carolus Linnaeus

• Thomas Malthus

Which scientist proposed the theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics?

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

• Charles Darwin

• James Hutton

• Georges Cuvier

Who introduced the concept of catastrophism to explain the disappearance of animals represented by fossils?

• Carolus Linnaeus

• Thomas Malthus

• Charles Lyell

• Georges Cuvier

Which scientist's work inspired both Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace in their discoveries of natural selection?

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

• Thomas Malthus

• James Hutton

• Charles Darwin

Who is considered the founder of modern geology and proposed the theory of uniformitarianism?

• James Hutton

• Charles Lyell

• Georges Cuvier

• Charles Darwin

Which scientist's theory recognized that change occurred gradually over long periods of time?

• James Hutton

• Charles Lyell

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

• Thomas Malthus

Who developed the theory of natural selection and authored 'On the Origin of Species'?

• Georges Cuvier

• Carolus Linnaeus

• Thomas Malthus

• Charles Darwin

Which scientist recognized that only traits influenced by genetic information can be inherited?

• Charles Darwin

• Georges Cuvier

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

• Carolus Linnaeus

Who proposed that geological processes observed in the present are the same as those that occurred in the past?

• James Hutton

• Charles Lyell

• Thomas Malthus

• Georges Cuvier

Which scientist suggested that a trait acquired by an animal during its lifetime can be passed on to offspring?

• Thomas Malthus

• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

• Carolus Linnaeus

• Charles Darwin