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(years are suppose to be in b.c.) He theorized that species are permanent perfect and immutable with increasing capacity
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Carolus Linnaeus Devolopes a hierarchil classifications scheme and a binomial nomenclature
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One of 18th and 19th centuary scientist who hypothesized that species can evolve Believed that acquired changes were passed onto offspring Law of use and dissuse inheritance of acquired characters
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Species are capapble of producing more offspring than resources can suppport Struggle for Food water and mates
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Cuvier develops paleontology
Deeper strata contains older taxa
Catastrophism Theory -
Hutton Proposes Theory of gradualism
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His theory was uniformitarianism
Geological process at inform rate building and waring down earths crust
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Lamark Publishes his theory on evolution
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Independently conceived of natural selectiion as the principal mechanism of adaptive evolution
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Chareles Darwin publishes his book on the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection