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Carl Linnaeus
Carolus Linnaeus was born in 1708 and died in 1778. He was the founder of taxonomy. This is the branch of biology related to naming and classifying diverse forms of life. -
James Hutton
James Hutton was born in 1726 and died in 1797. He proposed the theory of gradualism, this theory suggested that Earth’s geological features were due to the cumulative product of slow but continuous processes. -
Erasmus Darwin Cuvier
Erasmus Darwin was born in 1731 and died in 1802 and was Charles Darwin’s grandfather. He believed that evolution was inheritance of acquired characteristics -
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was born in 1744 and died in 1829. He explaining how specific adaptations evolved by use and disuse and the inheritance of acquired characteristic -
Charles Lyell
Lyell was born in 1797 and died in 1875. He took ideas from Hutton’s gradualism and incorporated his own ideas and turned it into his own uniformitarianism theory. This stated that the Earth’s geological processes have not changed. -
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin was born in 1809 and died in 1882. He was a naturalist whose scientific theory of evolution by natural selection became the foundation of modern evolutionary studies. -
Herbert Spencer
Spencer was born in 1820 and dies in 1903 and was responsible for the concept of ‘survival of the fittest’ -
Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Wallace was born in 1823 and died in 1913. He developed the theory of evolution by natural selection. -
Thomas Henry Huxley
Thomas Henry Huxley was born in 1825 and died in 1895. He was a large supporter of Charles Darwin’s evolutionary naturalism.