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Evolution Theory
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Carl Linnaeus
a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy -
James Hutton
Scottish geologist who offered an alternative to catastrophism with the proposed idea of gradualism. -
Thomas Malthus
Populations produce more offspring than they can survive -
Georges Cuvier
He is well known for establishing extinction as a fact, being the most influential proponent of catastrophism in geology in the early 19th century also founded vertebrate paleontology -
Jean B. Lamarck
Theory of heredity and inheritance of acquired traits which states that traits acquired in an organisms life time are passed to offspring -
Charles Lyell
Published principles of geology, He was a geologist who incorporated Hutton's gradualism into the theory of uniformitarianism which meant that the earth was millions of years old -
Charles Darwin
English naturalist, established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection. -
Alfred Wallace
English naturalist known for independently proposing a theory of evolution due to natural selection that prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own theory. -
Gregor Mendel
Mendel demonstrated that the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants follows particular patterns -
Alfred Wegener
He is most notable for his theory of continental drift, which hypothesized that the continents were slowly drifting around the Earth.
