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Who proposed the concept of 'eidos' and believed that species have a defining essence that is unchanged and totally fixed?
Plato
Which ancient Greek thinker observed diversity in the world and organized and classified organisms into Scala naturae/The great chain of being?
Aristotle
Who established an empirical approach to testing natural phenomena and confirmed Copernicus’ idea that the earth was not the center of space?
Galileo Galilei
Which thinker from the Middle Ages proposed the recent origin of earth (October 23, 4004 B.C. at 9am) and the idea that since nothing changes, nothing is related except descent?
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Who proposed the first mechanism of evolutionary change to explain biological diversity?
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What is taxonomy derived from?
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Who recognized that organisms are dynamic in relation to their environments?
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Which scientist described changes in biological organisms tied to changes in rock layers of Paris Basin?
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Who recognized that species share similarities with other species and used the classification of genus to acknowledge this?
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What did Carolus Linnaeus use to group organisms based on similarities?
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