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New intruments of magnification are fueling scientific research
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Swedish botonist Carl von Linne attempts to classify all life on earth
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Speculates that living creatures evolve according to natural laws
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charles darwins Pop a man of many names, toys with a daring idea. That all warm blooded beings evolved from one living specimen
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This was the year Charles Dawin was born. It \was in Britain, at the time it was at war with France.
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Belives all specimens evolved through time.
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Cuvier sees catastrophes in fossil record
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describes the age of earth and its inhabitents. Bones of specimens have been compared to new ones
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It transforms Darwin from 1831-1836. He spends his life on this voyage.
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Darwin creates a collection of diaries displaying his definition of life and evolution
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Vesstiges of natural history of creation becomes a notorious bestseller in England.
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Unearthiing skulls resembles adam and eve
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Alfred Russel Wallace, a young British explorer, writes Darwin from Malaysia, seeking the older naturalist's advice.
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A chance discovery raises the question whether humans existed tens of thousands or even millions of years in the past.
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This bloke made a paper explaining how the human has traits that were passed down through generations
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Some prominent scientists continue to reject the idea of revolution, but now it is becoming main stream science after the book On the Origin of Species.
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A fossil hunt is called through westens regions of north america. They find cool dinosaurs and most are now found in the museum of natural history
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Unlike that book, Darwin now unabashedly takes on human evolution. This was his new book.
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Tom Huxley captures public imagination and peices together the puzzle of evolution
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Even before Charles Darwin publishes his On the Origin of Species, the English social scientist Herbert Spencer proclaims that a struggle for existence in human society leads, in effect, to its revolution.
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Radioactivity is discovered by antoine henri Becquerel
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The obscure work of a Moravian monk is brought to light and becomes a cornerstone in the emerging science of genetics.
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An anphibious fossil resembeling humanity is found
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This legendary test case over the teaching of human revolution makes headlines around the world.
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First ape like man is found in a limeston quarry
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A popular yet inaccurate history of the 1920s called Only Yesterday promotes a cartoonlike tale of the scopes trail.
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Scientists now understand genetic mutations
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In the first of many cases to come, a powerful insecticide spurs the evolution of insects resistant to its onslaught.
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Science has known for decades that genes determine the traits of living things and that they passed down through generations.
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Experiments concerning electricity and soup is conducted to create amino