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350
Aristotle 350 BC
The Greek philosopher, Aristotle, studied marine animals and developed an epigenetic model of evolution. He also developed a classification system for all animals. -
400
Chinese Beliefs
Chinese thinkers such as Zhuangzi possed the idea that species change overtime. philosophers in China at the time thought that species had developed differing attributes in response to differing environments.This helped evolution in saything that species change over time due to changing enviorments. -
500
Xenophanes (500 BC)
Xenophanes studied fossils and put forth various theories on the evolution of life. -
520
Anaximander (520 BC)
e introduced an idea of evolution, stating that life started as slime in the oceans and eventually moved to drier places. He also brought up the idea that species evolved over time. -
Jan 18, 1260
Thomas Aquinas
Believed that life could form from non-living creatures and from plants. -
James Usher
He strongly reinforced creationism by couting generations of the Bible, he fixed creationism -
John Ray
Placed us in the order of primates, very contoveserial for his time. It mneant we were closer to other primates than other animals. -
Carolus Linnaeus
leading biological scientidt. He's books are filled with decriotions of plants but little analysis. He was torubled about plants hybirds but stopped short of concluding the plants eveolved -
Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
Theorized on the nature of heredity and how new species come into being. He thought that speciation took place by chance events in nature, rather than by spontaneous generation as was believed at the time. -
Conte De Buffon
He was a French mathematician and naturalist, he used living things change through time because of enviroment or even chance.Believed the earth much older than 6,000 years (75,000 years) That human and apes are related. -
James Hutton
Held the belief in iniformitarianism the earth is shaped by events that happen slowly over time. -
Erasmus Darwin
Grandfather to Charles Darwin. (physician,poet + amatuer scientist) He beleived evolution has occured in living things and human. Wasn't sure how it happened. -
George Cuvier
-Largly responsible for making bioligy n distant branhc of science
- Didn't agree with hamarck on how evolution happened. First to document extiction of ancient animals. An expert on dinosaurs -
Jean-Baptiste Chevalier De Lamarck
First to publicly state that evolution was happening. His theory was wrong -
Charles Lyell
Lawyer + geologist - decided catastrophism theory was wrong. Slover progressive changes in earth, decided Earth must be very old -
Alfred Russel Wallace
Had the same theories as Darwin and worked with him on their finding's -
Charles Darwin
English naturalist, he established all species of life desended from their ancestory's. Most influential figure in human history -
Origin of species
Has evidence of evolution it overcame earlier concepts of transmutation of species -
Gregor Mendel
Father of genetics, he studied the inheritance of traits in pea plants. He read Darwins book "Origin of Species" -
Scope Monkey Trials
It was a case in wich high school science teacher "john scopes", violated tennesse's butler act made it unlawful to teach evolution.
