HISTORY OF EVOLUTIONARY SCIENCE By jarrese 1795 Fossils: Cuvier and lamarck 1850 Discrete Genes Are Inherited: Gregor Mendel 1859 Natural Selection: Charles Darwin Alfred Russel Wallace 1929 Random Mutations and Evolutionary Change: Ronald Fisher, JBS Haldane and Sewall Wright 1942 Speciation: Ernst Mayr 1953 DNA, the Language of Evolution: Francis Crick and James Watson 1977 Evolution and Development for the 21st Century: Stephen Jay Gould