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350 BC- The Greek philosopher, Aristotle, studied marine animals and developed an epigenetic model of evolution. He also developed a classification system for all animals.
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Chinese thinkers such as Zhuangzi possed the idea that species change overtime. philosophers in China at the time thought that species had developed differing attributes in response to differing environments.This helped evolution in saything that species change over time due to changing enviorments
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Xenophanes studied fossils and put forth various theories on the evolution of life.
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520 BC - The Greek philosopher, Anaximander of Miletus, wrote a text called "On Nature" in which he introduced an idea of evolution, stating that life started as slime in the oceans and eventually moved to drier places. He also brought up the idea that species evolved over time.
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Believed that life could form from non-living creatures and from plants.
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He strongly reinforced creationism by couting generations of the Bible, he fixed creationism
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Placed us in the order of primates, very contoveserial for his time. It mneant we were closer to other primates than other animals.
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Theorized on the nature of heredity and how new species come into being. He thought that speciation took place by chance events in nature, rather than by spontaneous generation as was believed at the time.
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leading biological scientidt. He's books are filled with decriotions of plants but little analysis. He was torubled about plants hybirds but stopped short of concluding the plants eveolved
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He was a French mathematician and naturalist, he used living things change through time because of enviroment or even chance.Believed the earth much older than 6,000 years (75,000 years) That human and apes are related.
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Held the belief in iniformitarianism the earth is shaped by events that happen slowly over time
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Grandfather to Charles Darwin. (physician,poet + amatuer scientist) He beleived evolution has occured in living things and human. Wasn't sure how it happened.
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Largly responsible for making bioligy n distant branhc of science - Didn't agree with hamarck on how evolution happened. First to document extiction of ancient animals. An expert on dinosaurs
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First to publicly state that evolution was happening. His theory was wrong
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Lawyer + geologist - decided catastrophism theory was wrong. Slover progressive changes in earth, decided Earth must be very old
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Had the same theories as Darwin and worked with him on their finding's
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English naturalist, he established all species of life desended from their ancestory's. Most influential figure in human history
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It was a case in wich high school science teacher "john scopes", violated tennesse's butler act made it unlawful to teach evolution.
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Has evidence of evolution it overcame earlier concepts of transmutation of species
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Father of genetics, he studied the inheritance of traits in pea plants. He read Darwins book "Origin of Species"
