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The Theory of Evolution by MSHSFXC
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The first Theory / person to think of evolution and expand on it was Anaximander, Born in 610 BCE and died in 546 BCE he was possibly the first person to think of Evolution as how humans and other animals came to be, he lived in Miletus a city in Ioania, now modern day Türkiye, he was a student of Thales of Miletus and contributed heavily towards to a cosmological or philosophical view of the world so much that he is now regarded as one of the fathers of Western philosophy and science. -
After Anaximander came Empedocles, another Greek Philosopher from the years 490 BCE to 430 BCE, he was born near the southwest coast of Sicily during the pre Socratic Era (same as Anaximander) he was known for Originating the cosmogonic theory of the four classical elements (earth, air, fire, and water) and proposing the forces of Love and Strife to mix and separate the elements, respectively, he proposed a basic form of Evolution through natural selection and chance combinations. -
Comparative anatomy is a field of natural science, it can be traced back to natural philosophers and scientists in Ancient Greece like Aristotle but mainly flourished in the 18th and 19th century, Led by Naturalists like Georges Cuvier, its field of study tries to understand the adaptations that animals undertook in order to evolve into their current form and to adapt to the environments that they live in, its field consists of comparing animals bones like what Pierre Belon did in 1555. -
The Third main Theory of Evolution was the one that most of us are taught now days, Charles Robert Darwin, born on February 12, 1809 and died on April 19, 1882, he lived in Shrewsbury England and died in London, he was the person to officially write a book on Evolution, called 'On the Origin of Species' he worked on it for over 20 years adding to his ideas of Natural selection causing animals to evolve, like and almost every other animals coming from fish or some water dwelling animals. -
Fossil records or the Study of fossils was started in the 19th century but technologies in the 20th century allowed us to know for a fact date rocks and fossils has helped us be able to understand evolution by being able to take fossils caught in rocks date the rocks and fossils back to possible create a timeline of evolution and when this animals might have been common. -
Carbon dating is a method to determine the age of organic material by measuring the decay of Carbon 14, a radioactive form of carbon found in organic material, is has helped us by being able to measure the Carbon in fossils, allowing us to accurately date human skeletons and fossils back to help us understand when this early human lived in time, it was created in the late 1940's by Willard Libby, a chemist in the Uni of Chicago. -
The discovery of the Double Helix in 1953 by James Watson and Francis Crick was revolutionary in helping us understand evolution and hereditary traits at a molecular level by providing a foundation to work off, the idea of DNA had been around since the 1860's by the Swiss Chemist Friedrich Miescher, after that notable scientists like Phoebus Levane and Erwin Chargaff worked to figure out the key chemicals in DNA and how the molecules connected together these discoveries led to James and Crick's. -
The creation of the field of science, aDNA (ancient DNA analysis) is a field that studies ancient DNA found in fossils like teeth and bones to help construct a detailed history on humans and other animals, it mainly helps in migration and evolutionary relationships, it was created by Russ Higuchi and his colleagues at the California UNI in 1984, it continues to evolve and get better and better still to this day helping us understand the past of Humans and other animals. -
Paleogenomics is a field of science dedicated to studying extinct Genomes of long gone animals and plants, it helps understand migrations of humans and even how ancient pathogens spread hundreds of thousands to millions of years ago, it was started in the early 2000's by Svante Pääbo, a Swedish Geneticist, he did this by sequencing early Neanderthals' DNA in 2010, this led to the fields emergence, the field itself is a part of aDNA, started years ago, Svante Pääbo got many awards for his work. -
The most recent discovery in the field of evolution is the discovery of an ape fossil named, Anadoluvius turkae, found at Çorakyerler fossil site in central Anatolia, Türkiye, it was discovered in 2015 but only the partial part of a skull was found and since we have found more of the skull but still not the full body, its discovery including other in the area such as the Ouranopithecus in Greece and Türkiye might mean that the earliest hominines arose in Europe and the eastern Mediterranean.