Terms
The doctrine that the earth has been shaped by uniform forces–erosion, accumulation of sediment, earthquakes, and volcanoes.
What is Uniformitarianism?
An English naturalist and biologist, best known for his theory of evolution by natural selection, which explains how species change over time.
Who is Charles Darwin?
Tyson concluded that this specimen more closely resembled humans than it did apes or monkeys.
What is a chimpanzee/pygmie?
The concept of traits that improve survival becoming more common in a population over time.
What is natural selection?
A man acquainted with Edward Tyson, who secured his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1679 and helped Tyson with anatomy drawings.
Who is Robert Hooke?
The name of the hospital in which Tyson was remarkably successful in humanizing treatment of the mentally ill.
What is Bedlam Hospital?
The psychological study of how different people gave wild and varied meanings to the same phenomenon.
What is cultural anthropology?
A Greek lyric poet, said to be the inventor of the mnemonic art.
Who is Simonides?
The Egyptian god who invented letters.
Who is Thoth?
“The treasury and guardian of all things,” according to Cicero.
What is memory?
He had excellent memory, and his biographers always boasted how he was able to memorize everything his teachers told him in school. He expounded Cicero's definition of memory as a part of Prudence, making it one of the four cardinal virtues.
Who is Saint Thomas Aquinas?
The only fish-like mammal found in British waters, never been anatomized before, offered to Edward Tyson by a fishmonger.
What is a porpoise?
A concept that suggests that all species share ancestors if traced back far enough in time.
In 1798, he wrote Essay on the Principle of Population. This English thinker argued that populations grow faster than food supplies, creating competition for survival that later influenced Darwin’s theory.
Who is Thomas Robert Malthus?
The Greek Goddess of Memory, daughter of Uranus and Gaea, mother of the 9 Muses.
Who is Mnemosyne?