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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
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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.
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Hutton proposes his theory of gradualism
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Malthus publishes his theory of evolution
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Populations produce more offspring than they can survive
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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
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Publishes theory of evolution
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Publishment of the Principles of Geology
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Charles Darwin, then very young and still a student, joins the voyage of the HMS Beagle as a naturalist.
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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.
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Darwin, suffering from sickness both in himself and his family , finishes his book "The Origin of Species" and publishes it. It becomes wildly popular.
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Mendel's works with pea plants published, setting the background for the basis of natural selection.
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Walter Sutton proposed that chromosomes were the basis for Mendelian inheritance of characteristics.
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He is most notable for his theory of continental drift, which hypothesized that the continents were slowly drifting around the Earth.
