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A new naming system
Carolus Linnaeus who was a Swedish scientist. He published Systema Naturae, which included the modern naming system of binomial nomenclature (naming of species with two names) (i.e. Homo sapiens, for humans). -
Start of paleontology
Georges Cuvier was born he was a highly known and respected French scientist. He is known as the father of Paleontology and known for his denial of any evolutionary theory, by his study of the fossil record. -
Geologic time and gradualism
James Hutton was a Scottish scientist and physician who published a bunch of theories explaining the geology of the Earth, with them was the concept of geologic time, and that the Earth gradually changes over time. -
Population Studies
Thomas Robert Malthus publishes the first edition of "An Essay on the Principle of Population.". The 6th edition of this book was cited by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in the development of the theory of natural selection. -
First theory of evolution published
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was a French naturalist who published his theory of evolution. Which was that evolution occurred through inheritance of certain characteristics. Lamarck was a very influential man in Darwinism and evolution. -
Charles Darwin's Birth
Charles Darwin Is Born -
New thoughts on geology
Charles Lyell publishes the" Principles of Geology." This pushed a view of geology. Which was that forces in the past are the same as forces in the present and that we can use the forces present today to reveal things about and from the past. -
A new world
Charles Darwin, very young and still a student joins the voyage of the HMS Beagle as a naturalist. Where he finds proof of evolution -
First Essay
Charles Darwin who had been working for many years writes an essay on the theory of evolution. This essay was never published though. -
Competition for evolution
Alfred Russel Wallace also publishes a writing that was close to conclusions that Darwin had made. Which included natural selection. Darwin's friends present both Wallace's and Darwin's theories at the Linnean Society. -
The Origin Of Species
Darwin who was suffering from sickness both in himself and his family finishes his book "The Origin of Species" and publishes it. This book becomes wildly popular. -
Hereditary Experimentation
Mendel's work with pea plants was published, setting the basis for the basis of natural selection. -
Importance of DNA in hereditary
August Weismann publishes his findings, detailing how important DNA is to heredity as well as a germ cell theory which was that inheritance only takes place by means of germ cells such as egg and sperm and that other cells do not pass on their genes. -
Chromosomes and Hereditary
Walter Sutton said that chromosomes were the basis for Mendelian's inheritance of characteristics. -
Genetic Material Verified
DNA is proven to be the genetic material where inheritance passes from one generation to the next and therefore is the proven basis for evolution.
