Evolution of Evolutionary Thought by Mr. Taylor

Evolution

Period: Jan 1, 1500 to Oct 28, 2012

512 years of evolutionary theory

Georgius Agricola challanges contemporary six-day creationism with his study and release of observations on geological and fossil strata in "De Natura Fossilium"

Oct 28, 1546

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/agricola.html

Antony van Leeuwenhoek elected a fellow in the Royal Society of London for his work with microscopes. He cleared the way for cell study.

Oct 28, 1680

John Ray focused on organismal morphology. He reconciled religious views by adhering to natural theology.

Oct 28, 1695

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/ray.html

Carl Linnaeus vigorously identified and classified many plants and animals with binomial nomenclature.

Oct 28, 1753

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/science-of-natural-history/biographies/linnaeus/index.html

Erasmus Darwin publishes Zoonomia. He talked about competition, sexual selection, and hypothesized all life may have arisen from "one living filement."

Oct 28, 1795

Georges Cuvier established extinction as a fact.

Oct 28, 1796

Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection"

Oct 28, 1859

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/darwin_charles.shtml

Alfred Wallace travels in Malay archipelago and corresponds with Darwin on the diversity of species and explains it through natural selection-like ways.

Oct 28, 1860

E.D. Cope studied embryology and hypothesized differences in species to arise from changes in development

Oct 28, 1867

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/cope.html

Alfred Wegener published "The Origin of Continents and Oceans" and introduced continental drift that explained separation of similar fossils.

Oct 28, 1915