Evolutionary Scientists
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Updated: 25 Feb 2020
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Created byAiden Therianos
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(Charles Darwin) The Origin of Species - Natural selectionWallace's letter to Darwin detailing natural selection(Lyell) Principles of Geology - Detailed uniformitarianism(Malthus) An essay on the principle of population - Population grows in accordance with the availability of food(Cuvier) Essay on the Theory of the Earth - Species become extinct as a result of catastrophes(Lamarck) Theory of inheritance of acquired characteristics - Species inherit traits from their parent that they have phsyicaly acquired(Erasmus Darwin) The Temple of Nature - Sexual selection(Hutton) Theory of the Earth - Earth has been shaped by continuous uniform processes (Uniformitarianism)(Buffon) Histoire Naturelle - Defined species(Linneaus) Systema Naturae - Bionomial Nomenclature, a system to organize every species into two scientific namesPeriods
(420 BC - 350 BC) Plato - Idealism, all life is created by God in perfect form(384 BC - 322 BC) Aristotle - Proposed Scala Naturae, a ladder of divinity
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