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Rise of Evolution Timeline
Created by
Emme Pan
⟶ Updated 8 Feb 2018 ⟶
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A close-up view of "spontaneous generation (c. 1660)
Linnaeus's Systema Naturae charts life (c. 1735)
Comte de Buffon proposes radical ideas (c. 1749)
Erasmus Darwin's Zoonomia heralds evolution (1794)
Lamarck champions evolution (c. 1809)
Darwin born in a conservative era (1809)
Cuvier sees catastrophes in fossil record (c. 1817)
Lyell describes immense age of Earth (c. 1830)
Beagle voyage transforms Darwin (1831-1836)
Darwin starts secret notebooks (1837)
Anonymous pamphlet on evolution strikes fury (1844)
Lord Kelvin calculates the age of Earth (c. 1846)
Was Neanderthal Man a son of Adam? (1856)
On the Origin of Species spurs a revolution (1859)
Wallace provokes Darwin to publish (1858)
Flint tools spark debate over human evolution (1858)
Evolution accepted (c. 1865)