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Before Darwin

  • Aristole
    350

    Aristole

    He studied marine animals and devloped an epigenetic model of evolution.
  • Period: 350 to

    Before Darwin

  • Xenophanes
    500

    Xenophanes

    He studied fossils and put forth variouse theries on the evolution of life.
  • Anaximander Miletus
    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.
  • Jame Ussher
    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

    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

    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

    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

    Carolus Linnaeus

    1707-1778, He had 180 books about precise descripitions of nature.
  • Kant

    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

    Jame Hutton

    1726-1797, He held that the Natural forces.
  • Erasmus Darwin

    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

    Carolus Linnaeus

    He was a swedish born naturalist, published his book Systema Naturae.
  • Jean- Baptistee Lamarck

    Jean- Baptistee Lamarck

    1744-1829, The belief most commonly associated with Lamarck today is his idea of the inheritance of acquived characteristics.
  • George Covier

    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

    Comte de buffon

    A group of organisms which can breed and produce fertil offsprings.
  • Pierre-Louis Moreav de Mavpertuis

    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

    Thomas Malthus

    1766-1834, According to him populations produce many more offspring than can possibly suruiueon the limited resources.
  • George Cuvier

    George Cuvier

    1769-1832, Cuvier advocated the theory of catastrophismas like other leading scientists of his day.
  • Charles Bonnet

    Charles Bonnet

    He said that females of each organism contain the next generation in miniature form.
  • George Couier

    George Couier

    1790-1830, Vertebrate paleontolgy confirmed that species can become extinct.
  • Erasmus Darwin

    Erasmus Darwin

    He wrote his throries of evolution his book "zoonomia".
  • Charles Lyell

    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

    Erasmus Darwin

    1731-1802, He did argue that all life could have a single common ancestor.
  • Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

    Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

    His book is called Philosophie Zoologique started with animals evolved from simpler forms.
  • Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin

    Charles Darwin was born in Shresbury, England