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Carolus Linnaeus
He introduced the biological classification. He is often called the Father of Taxonomy. Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist. Linnaeus's work was important because he was the first person to put together a system for the naming of organisms (specifically plants). -
August Weismann
He made the important distinction between germ cells (sperm and eggs) and somatic cells of the body. He was a german evolutionary biologist. -
Charles Lyell
He was a was a British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day. He is best known as the author of Principles of Geology, which popularised James Hutton's concepts of uniformitarianism – the idea that the earth was shaped by the same processes still in operation today. Lyell was a close and influential friend of Charles Darwin. -
Charles Darwin
His theory of evolution was one of the greatest contributions to the science field. He was interested in all living things from a young age and enjoyed reading books about geology and biology. He was an English naturalist and he established that all living species have lessened in quantity. -
Alfred Russel Wallace
He sent C.Darwin a similar theory in 1858. was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist and biologist. He is mainly known for his individual theory of evolution due to natural selection. This questioned Charles Darwin on his own theory. -
Gregor Mendel
He reported that traits were inherited in a predictable manner through the independent assortment and segregation of elements (later known as genes). -
William Bateson
William Bateson was an English geneticist and a Fellow of St. John's College, Cambridge. He was the first person to use the term genetics to describe the study of heredity and biological inheritance. -
Ernst Mayr
Mayr proposed that when a population of organisms becomes separated from the main group by time or geography, they eventually evolve different traits and can no longer interbreed.God`s theory -
James Watson & Francis Crick
The publication of the structure of DNA by James Watson and Francis Crick in 1953 demonstrated a physical basis for inheritance. They were famous for discovering the structure of DNA -
James Ussher
He published a chronology that purported to establish the time and date of the creation.
