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Spontaneous Generation
New intruments of magnification are fueling scientific research -
linnaeus's systems naturae chart life
Swedish botonist Carl von Linne attempts to classify all life on earth -
Comte de buffon
Speculates that living creatures evolve according to natural laws -
Erasmus Darwin Zoonomia
charles darwins Pop a man of many names, toys with a daring idea. That all warm blooded beings evolved from one living specimen -
Darwin Bord
This was the year Charles Dawin was born. It \was in Britain, at the time it was at war with France. -
Lamarck champions evolutyion
Belives all specimens evolved through time. -
Cuvier
Cuvier sees catastrophes in fossil record -
Lyell describes immense age of earth
describes the age of earth and its inhabitents. Bones of specimens have been compared to new ones -
Beagle voyage
It transforms Darwin from 1831-1836. He spends his life on this voyage. -
Darwin's diaries
Darwin creates a collection of diaries displaying his definition of life and evolution -
Anonymous
Vesstiges of natural history of creation becomes a notorious bestseller in England. -
nendathol man son of adam?
Unearthiing skulls resembles adam and eve -
Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace, a young British explorer, writes Darwin from Malaysia, seeking the older naturalist's advice. -
Flint tools
A chance discovery raises the question whether humans existed tens of thousands or even millions of years in the past. -
mendal's break throughs go unnoticed
This bloke made a paper explaining how the human has traits that were passed down through generations -
Evolution Accepted
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. -
Fabulous fossils
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 -
The descent of man
Unlike that book, Darwin now unabashedly takes on human evolution. This was his new book. -
Horse fossils
Tom Huxley captures public imagination and peices together the puzzle of evolution -
Social Darwinism
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. -
Radioactivity points to human earth
Radioactivity is discovered by antoine henri Becquerel -
Mendel Rediscovered
The obscure work of a Moravian monk is brought to light and becomes a cornerstone in the emerging science of genetics. -
Missing Link
An anphibious fossil resembeling humanity is found -
Scopes trial
This legendary test case over the teaching of human revolution makes headlines around the world. -
Taungs man like ape stirs fury
First ape like man is found in a limeston quarry -
Scopes Myth
A popular yet inaccurate history of the 1920s called Only Yesterday promotes a cartoonlike tale of the scopes trail. -
Neo-Darwinism adds new theory
Scientists now understand genetic mutations -
DDT
In the first of many cases to come, a powerful insecticide spurs the evolution of insects resistant to its onslaught. -
DNA puzzle solved
Science has known for decades that genes determine the traits of living things and that they passed down through generations. -
Origins of life
Experiments concerning electricity and soup is conducted to create amino