Predessesors to current views on evolution

Admit Slip: What is evolution?

Objective: Students will take notes on Charles Darwin, Alfred Russsel Wallace, Jean Baptiste Lamark, Georges Cuvier, James Hutton, Charles Lyell and Thomas Malthus.

Homework: We now know that there are four major modes of evolution: mutation, migration, genetic drift and natural selection. Find one example for each of the four modes (one example for mutation, one for migration..)