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james usher 1581-1686 fixed the date of creation at 4004 bc at 9:00 am was his proclamation
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the concept of genus and species was actually developed in the late 1600s by john ray 1627-1705
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carolus linnaeus 1707-1778 a swedish botanist was troubled that plant hybrids could be created by cross polination linnaes stopped short of concluding these plants evolved
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his most impornant contribution to science was his logical classification for all living things which he proposed in his boomk systema naturae first published in 1735
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comte de buffon 1707-1788 actually said that living things do change through time
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believed that the earth was older than 6000 years old in 1774 he speculated that the earth must be at least 75000 years old
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james hutton 1726-1797 considered the father of modern geology postulated somethign similar to natural selection in an investigation of the principals of knowledge
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wrote ideas about evolution in poems and a publication entilted the laws of organic life 1794-1796
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both independently developed the idea of the mechanism of natural selection after reading the essay on the principal of population 1798
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jean baptiste lamarck 1744-1829 the idea most commonly associated with him today is the idea of the inheritance of acquired characteristicts
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an american physicist of schottish descent named william charles wells 1757-1817 presented a paper in 1813 on natural selection that could count for different skin colors among people
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in his three volume principals of geology 1830-1833 he documented that the earth must be very old and it has been subject to the same sort of natural process in the past as it is today
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patrick mathew 1790-1874 proposed similar natural selection idea in 1831 in his book on naval timber and arboriculture
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some authors argued that edward blyth 1810-1873 developed the idea for selection in an 1835 newspaper
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had same theorey as darwin but darwin but had joint paper with darwin presented to the linean society of london in 1858
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presented in 1859 by darwin on his theories
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darwin was not aware of mathews book until 1860 when mathew wrote a letter tothe gardners chronicle and agricultural gazette
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eisley and grote claimed that the leading tenants of darwins work the struggle for existence variation natural selection and sexual selection aren all fully expressed in blyths 1935 paper
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paul pearson pointed out the early works of james hutton in review in nature in 2003
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immanuel kant 1724-1804 developed a concept of descent that is relatively close to modern thinking
