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Charles Darwin is employed as a naturalist on the HMS Beagle and reaches Galapagos Islands
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Wallace and Darwins manuscripts are compared
Alfred Wallace’s and Charles Darwin’s manuscripts on the natural selection were read aloud to the Linnaean Society of London giving all credit to Darwin -
Origin of Species
Charles Darwin’s The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was first published and sold out within the first day -
Charles Lyell published The Geological Evidence of the Antiquity of Man
This showed his geological approach to the assessment of evolution. He was one of the first men to embrace Darwin’s theory -
The infamous Scopes Monkey Trial began in Dayton, Tennessee
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Pope Pius XII issued the encyclical Humani Generis
which allowed evolution to not necessarily conflict with Christianity yet it still threated Roman Catholic faith -
DNA was discovered
DNA was discovered by Francis Crick and James Watson with the help of Rosalind Franklin. They studied DNA using x-rays, Franklin was able to produce a x-ray photograph allowing them to work out the 3D structure of DNA. This was found to be a double helix