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The field of genomics gave scientists new tools for understanding how humans, along with all living things have evolved over billions of years.
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Evolutionary scientists see how the DNA of various organisms has changed through time as they evolved.
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Darwin uses the term "sociobiology" to describe the behaviour of all animals.
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Donald Johnson announces the find of a 4 million year old fossil that is a boon to the research of evolution.
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Meant to reinforce the Scopes myth of evolution.
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The discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA unlocks the details of what genes are and how they work.
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Stanley Miller produces amino acids through an experiment, the key chemical building blocks of life.
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Scientists now understand that random genetic mutations can cause changes in the traits of organisms.
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Raymond Dart announces a man-like ape found in limestone at Taungs, South Africa. There are many similarities between the skull of the ape and human.
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Darwin's contrary idea that all traits of parents are "blended" in their offspring are discovered to be his work.
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A physicist Antoine Henri Becquerel, discovers radioactivity, leading to stunning calculations of Earth's age.
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Thomas Huxley and Othniel Charles Marsh piece together fossil of an ancient horse. They predict that a more ancient animal existed and was related to the present-day horses.
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Mendell realizes that many traits such as the seed color of peas, are passed down in pairs of units; these units are later called genes.
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Darwin introduces the idea of "natural selection" in the wild. In breeding, he refers to as "artificial selection".
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One of Darwin's notebooks labeled "Transformation of Species" sketches his first "tree of life".
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After his trip, Darwin dedicates and devotes himself to a life in science, discovering nature's laws.
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Charles Lyell helps further the idea that Earth and life on Earth spans over vast ages.
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Georges Cuvier was a French naturalist to explain how catastrophes in the past were shown in fossil records.
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Charles Darwin's birth comes when Britain is at war with France and evolutionary is an idea linked to French radicals and revolutions.
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Jean Baptiste Lamarck was a French naturalist that proposed living things evolved to be more complex over time.
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Charles Darwin's grandfather proposes questions and encourages the rise to the research in evolution.
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Georges Louis Leclerc speculates that living creatures evolve according to natural laws.
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An attempt by Carl von Linne to classify all life on Earth.
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It was when new instruments let us see if life can arise from nonliving matter.
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