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Hugo De Vries is born
De Vries was the eldest son of Gerrit De Vries (1818-1900) and was born in Haarlem, Netherlands. -
De Vries graduates Lieden University
De Vries graduates with a doctorate of Botany. Unknown month and day of graduation. -
De Vries moves to Germany
De Vries moves to Germany to work and research plant growth. Unknown month and day. -
De Vries Marries Louise Egeling
De Vries met Louise Egeling while living in Germany. The two were married on April 10, 1878. They had 4 children together; three sons and one daughter. -
Professorship of Botany
De Vries was given a full professorship of botany at the University of Amsterdam on his birthday in 1881. -
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The Mutation Theory
De Vries created his theory of mutations by researching the evening primrose and the many variations between the flowers. He propsed that these variations came from mutations. He documented his research and published it in his two-volume publication "The Mutation Theory." Unknown months and days. -
Intracellular Pangenesis
In 1889, De Vries published his book called Intracellular Pangenesis, which he based on Charles Darwin's theory of Pangenesis, where he proposed the hypothosis of genes. He proposed that plants had what he called "pangenes" (genes as we know them today) that were composed of different hereditary characteristics. Unknown month and day. -
De Vries retires
De Vries retires from his active professorship and continued to study plants in his research gardens on his personal property. Unkown month and day. -
De Vries dies
Hugo De Vries past away on May 21, 1935 in Amsterdam. -
Richard Dawkins Birth
Clinton Richard Dawkins was the son of agricultural civil servant in the British Colonial Service, Clinton John Dawkins and Jean Mary Vyvyan Ladner, born in Nairobi, Kenya. Dawkins would spend the first 8 years of his life in Kenya where he would develop a facination of animal behaviors that would later shape his life. -
Dawkins returns to England.
Dawkins and his family left Kenya and returned to England in 1949. His father inherited a country estate called Over Norton Park which he turned into a commercial farm. Unknown month and day. -
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Dawkins High School
Dawking attended Oundle School in Peterborough, England where he decided Darwinism was a better explanation for design and converted to atheism. -
Dawkins Graduates University
Dawkins graduated Balliol College, Oxford University with a BA in zoology. While atteneding Balliol, Dawkins was tutored by Nobel-prize winning ethologist Niko Tinbergen. Unknown month and day. -
Dawkins receives doctorate
While continuing to study under Niko Tinbergen at Oxford, Dawkins earned his phD. Unknown day and month. -
University of Berkley
Dawkins was an assistant professor of zoology at the University of California, Berkley where he became very much involved in anti-war efforts opposing the ongoing Vietnam war. Uknown month and day. -
Dawkins first marraige
Dawkins married a fellow ethologist named Marian Stamp in Annestown, County Waterford, Ireland. The couple later divorced in 1984. -
Dawkins returns to Oxford
Dawkins returns to oxford to take a position as a lecturer at Oxford University and a fellow of New College delivering many inaugural and other lectures. Unknown month and day. -
Dawkins publishes his first book
Dawkins published his first book, "The Selfish Gene." in 1976 which discusses that "All life evolves by the differential survival of replicating entities." -
Dawkins published second book
Dawkins published his second book called, "The extended phenotype." which he describes natual selection as "the process by which replicators out-propogate each other. -
Dawkins second marriage
Dawkins married his second wife, Eve Barham (August 19, 1951- February 28, 1999.) They also divorced later in 1992. The two had one daughter together named Juliet Emma Dawkins born in 1984 in Oxford. -
Dawkins published his third book
Dawkins published his third book called, "The Blind Watchmaker" which argues the theory of evolution by means of natural selection. -
Dawkins third marriage
Dawkins married his third wife Lalla Ward in Kensington and Chelsea, London in 1992. -
Simonyi Professorship
Dawkins was the first holder of the Charles Simonyi Chair in the Public Understanding of Science which he was awarded at Oxford University in 1995. Unknown month and day. -
Dawkins published his fourth book
Dawkins published his fourth book called, "River out of Eden: a Darwinian View of Life." that desribes the idea that life is a river of genes flowing through geological time where organisms are simply temporary vessels. -
Dawkins fifth book published
Dawkins published his fifth book called, "Climbing Mount Improbable" discusses the implicit designs of organisms in the way that they are not designed by chance but by adaptations through natural selection.
