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James Hutton
he did scientific research, helped to start a chemical industry, and farmed his estate. He is one of the founders of modern geology and saw earth as a mere playground which adaots -
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Erasmus Darwin
The grandfather of Darwin who had a profound influence on Darwin's ideas. He was a philliospher on human nature -
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Jean Baptiste Lamarck
He was one of the first people to suggest that organisms changed in relation with natural laws and influenced darwin -
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Thomas Malthus
he was an economist and understood populations and their growth or decline, and idea and equation for human population influenced darwin -
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Alfred Russel Wallace
He is best known for proposing a theory of natural selection. This was published in 1858 together with Charles Darwin's idea, he also reaseacrhed alot in south america