EVOLUTION

james usher

Oct 23, 1600

james usher 1581-1686 fixed the date of creation at 4004 bc at 9:00 am was his proclamation

john ray

Jan 17, 1660

the concept of genus and species was actually developed in the late 1600s by john ray 1627-1705

carolus linnaeus

Jan 17, 1720

carolus linnaeus 1707-1778 a swedish botanist was troubled that plant hybrids could be created by cross polination linnaes stopped short of concluding these plants evolved

carolus linneaus

Jan 17, 1735

his most impornant contribution to science was his logical classification for all living things which he proposed in his boomk systema naturae first published in 1735

comte de buffon

Jan 17, 1773

comte de buffon 1707-1788 actually said that living things do change through time

comte de buffon

Jan 17, 1774

believed that the earth was older than 6000 years old in 1774 he speculated that the earth must be at least 75000 years old

james hutton

Jan 17, 1794

james hutton 1726-1797 considered the father of modern geology postulated somethign similar to natural selection in an investigation of the principals of knowledge

erasmus darwin

Jan 17, 1794

wrote ideas about evolution in poems and a publication entilted the laws of organic life 1794-1796

charles darwin and alfred russell wallace

Jan 17, 1798

both independently developed the idea of the mechanism of natural selection after reading the essay on the principal of population 1798

jean baptiste lamarck

Jan 17, 1800

jean baptiste lamarck 1744-1829 the idea most commonly associated with him today is the idea of the inheritance of acquired characteristicts

william charles wells

Jan 17, 1813

an american physicist of schottish descent named william charles wells 1757-1817 presented a paper in 1813 on natural selection that could count for different skin colors among people

charles lyell

Jan 17, 1830

in his three volume principals of geology 1830-1833 he documented that the earth must be very old and it has been subject to the same sort of natural process in the past as it is today

patrick mathew

Jan 17, 1831

patrick mathew 1790-1874 proposed similar natural selection idea in 1831 in his book on naval timber and arboriculture

edwars blyth

Jan 17, 1835

some authors argued that edward blyth 1810-1873 developed the idea for selection in an 1835 newspaper

alfred russell wallace

Jan 17, 1858

had same theorey as darwin but darwin but had joint paper with darwin presented to the linean society of london in 1858

origin of species

Jan 17, 1859

presented in 1859 by darwin on his theories

mathews letter

Jan 17, 1860

darwin was not aware of mathews book until 1860 when mathew wrote a letter tothe gardners chronicle and agricultural gazette

magazine of natural history

Jan 17, 1959

eisley and grote claimed that the leading tenants of darwins work the struggle for existence variation natural selection and sexual selection aren all fully expressed in blyths 1935 paper

paul pearson

Jan 17, 2003

paul pearson pointed out the early works of james hutton in review in nature in 2003

immanuel kant

Jan 17, 2012

immanuel kant 1724-1804 developed a concept of descent that is relatively close to modern thinking