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Christain preist thought that gods creation were imperfect and changed slowly overtime. This also helped the idea that evolution was made from religious leaders.
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He studied fossils and had various theories on evolution.
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He was a Greek philosopher that introduced the idea of evolution. He felt life started as slime in the ocean and eventually moved to drier places. He also brought up the idea that species evolved over time.
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People in this time period thought that things went from mineral to plant to animal and from animal to man.
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Spontaneous generation was the idea that living things can appear fully formed from inorganic matter. For example, maggots came from rotting meat, frogs came from slime, etc.
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Greeks have a philosophical notion of descent with modification. Several different Greek philosophers subscribed to a concept of origination, arguing that all things originated from water or air.
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By counting the generations of the Bible and adding them to modern history, the date of creation was thought to be October 23, 4004 B.C.
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The word species gets a definition.
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Charles Darwin's grandfather had his own ideas about evolution. He never thought of natural selection, but he did argue that all life could have a single common ancestor.
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Maupertuis wrote in 1751 that natural mutations occurring during reproduction over many generations can produce new species.
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Buffon suggested that species could regress and end up different organisms.
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Lamarack thought species were not fixed and immutable, but rather in a constantly changing state.This was a plausable explanation as to why organisms adapted to their surroundings.
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Georges Cuvier in the Early 1800's suggested that based on his calculations, the earth was 6,000 years old, Saying the world was this old added some more beleif into the fact that things could evolve due to the time it takes to do so.
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Charles Lyell published evidence pushing the age of the earth back several million years. Which added to the idea that things would have had time to evolve.
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He was the co-discoverer of Natural Selection. Thanks to him Darwin published his theory.
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Mendel uses a pea plant to show that certain traits are inherited.
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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.
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WW 2 starts and the Nazis try to spread the Aryan Race.
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The war ends and with it Hitlers plans to make the perfect soilder.
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Article Some of Darwin's long unseen fossils were discovered. Seeing these fossils help make it easier to understand.
