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Plato's student aristotle categorized all organisms into a linear hierarchy that called the "Ladder of Nature"
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Plato proposed that each object on Earth is merely a temporary reflection of its divinely inspired "ideal form"
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Georges Louis Leclerc suggested that the original creation provided a relatively small number of founding species
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Lyell considered the forces of wind, water,and volcanoes and concluded that there was no need to invoke catastrophes to explain the findings of geology
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Jean Baptiste Lamarck propose a mechanism for evolution
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Georges Cuvier advanced the idea of catastrophism
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William Smith recognized that certain fossils were always found in the same layers of rock
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Cuvier's hypothesis of a world shaped by successive catastrophes was challenged by the work of the geologist Charles Lyell
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Lamarck published a book in wich he hypothesized that organism evolved through yhe inheritance of acquired characteristics
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Darwin was the first to propose a mechanism for evolution
