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350
Aristole
He studied marine animals and devloped an epigenetic model of evolution. -
Period: 350 to
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500
Xenophanes
He studied fossils and put forth variouse theries on the evolution of life. -
520
Anaximander Miletus
He wrote "On Nature" which he said it was an Idea of evolution." Stating that life started as slime in the ocean and eventually moved to dryerland. -
Oct 23, 1581
Jame Ussher
1581-1656,That the earth and life is only 6,000 years old fitneatly with the prevalent theory of the Great Chain of Being. -
John Ray
He used the system to name use Homo Sapiens (literally, "wise men"), and Primates (a larger more inclusive category than our genius. -
John Ray
Wrote the book called Historia Plantarum catalogued and discribed 18,600 kinds of plants gave the first defination of species based upon common descent. -
Carolus Linnaeus
Is call the father of modern taxonom. He swayed by hybridization exiperiments in plants. However he maintained his belief in special creation in the Garden Of Eden. -
Carolus Linnaeus
1707-1778, He had 180 books about precise descripitions of nature. -
Kant
1724-11804 , He did in a way anticipate Dawinian thinking. He mused that "an orangoutang or a chimpanzee may develop the organs which serve for walking grasping objects, and speaking-in short. -
Jame Hutton
1726-1797, He held that the Natural forces. -
Erasmus Darwin
1731-1802, The Earth and life must have been evoluing for millions of ages before the commen cement of the history of man kind. -
Carolus Linnaeus
He was a swedish born naturalist, published his book Systema Naturae. -
Jean- Baptistee Lamarck
1744-1829, The belief most commonly associated with Lamarck today is his idea of the inheritance of acquived characteristics. -
George Covier
He said that if it was correct, the children of cowboys who have developed bowed legs as are sult of a life time of riding horses would be born with bowed legs. -
Comte de buffon
A group of organisms which can breed and produce fertil offsprings. -
Pierre-Louis Moreav de Mavpertuis
He wrote a book called "system dela Nature" it theorized on the nature of heredity and how new species. -
Thomas Malthus
1766-1834, According to him populations produce many more offspring than can possibly suruiueon the limited resources. -
George Cuvier
1769-1832, Cuvier advocated the theory of catastrophismas like other leading scientists of his day. -
Charles Bonnet
He said that females of each organism contain the next generation in miniature form. -
George Couier
1790-1830, Vertebrate paleontolgy confirmed that species can become extinct. -
Erasmus Darwin
He wrote his throries of evolution his book "zoonomia". -
Charles Lyell
1797-1875, Lyell documented the fact that earth is very old it is subject to the same sort of natural prcesses. -
Erasmus Darwin
1731-1802, He did argue that all life could have a single common ancestor. -
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
His book is called Philosophie Zoologique started with animals evolved from simpler forms. -
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin was born in Shresbury, England
