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The new naming system
Carolus Linnaeus, a Swedish scientist, published Systema Naturae, which includes the common modern naming system of binomial nomenclature, or the naming of species with two names -
Birth of Paleontology
Georges Cuvier, a highly respected French scientist, was born, He is known as the father of Paleontology. Also well known for his denial of any sort of evolutionary theory, by his study of the fossil record. -
Hutton
Hutton proposes his theory of gradualism -
Principles of Population
Malthus publishes his theory of evolution -
Thomas Malthus
Populations produce more offspring than they can survive -
Georges Cuvier
He is well known for establishing extinction as a fact, being the most influential proponent of catastrophism in geology in the early 19th century also founded vertebrate paleontology -
Lamarck
Publishes theory of evolution -
Lyell's Principles of Geology
Publishment of the Principles of Geology -
Darwin's travels
Charles Darwin, then very young and still a student, joins the voyage of the HMS Beagle as a naturalist. -
Wallace and Darwin
Alfred Russel Wallace publishes a paper coming to some of the same conclusions as Darwin, including natural selection. Darwin's friends present both Wallace's and Darwin's theories at the Linnean Society. -
The Origin of Species
Darwin, suffering from sickness both in himself and his family , finishes his book "The Origin of Species" and publishes it. It becomes wildly popular. -
Mendel and Heredity
Mendel's works with pea plants published, setting the background for the basis of natural selection. -
Walter Sutton
Walter Sutton proposed that chromosomes were the basis for Mendelian inheritance of characteristics. -
Alfred Wegener
He is most notable for his theory of continental drift, which hypothesized that the continents were slowly drifting around the Earth.
