Darwin

Origin of life and evolution theories

  • Jan 4, 1581

    CREACIONISM, James Ussher

    CREACIONISM, James Ussher
    The archbishop: James Ussher in 1650 calculated the date in what God created the earth (22/10/4004 a.C.) so animals as well.
  • SPONTANEOUS GENRATION, Francesco Redi

    SPONTANEOUS GENRATION, Francesco Redi
    His experiment done in 1668 showed the falseness of the spontaneous generation theory. He wrote a book abou it in 1684.
    The idea of the spontaneous generation come from the ancient Greece, for example from Aristóteles
  • FIJISM, Karl Von Linneo

    FIJISM, Karl Von Linneo
    He apart from invent the binomial system of taxonomy, thought that all species since they were created they haven't changed.
  • Georges Louis Leclerc

    Georges Louis Leclerc
    At the end of the XVIII century, he said that living beings are developed or transformed.
  • EVOLUCIONISM, Lamarck

    EVOLUCIONISM, Lamarck
    He made the first theory of the biological evolution.
  • CATASTROPHISM, George Cuvier

    CATASTROPHISM, George Cuvier
    He also believed in the truth of the fijism so to explain the appearance and the disappearance of the different species he made the theory of catastrophism.
  • NEODARWINISM, Gregor Mendel

    NEODARWINISM, Gregor Mendel
    He was based in the teory of Darwin and Wallace, but he knows some of genetics, so he made the theory of neodarwinism or the evolution synthetic theory.
  • SPONTANEOUS GENERATION, Louis Pasteur

    SPONTANEOUS GENERATION,  Louis Pasteur
    He made an experiment in 1859 showed that the spontaneous generation was a false theory. He also created the pasteurization, and he is known as the first microbiologist.
  • EVOLUTIONIST THEORY, Darwin-Wallace

    EVOLUTIONIST THEORY, Darwin-Wallace
    in this date they showed the theory of evolution by natural selection.
  • PANSPERMIA, Svante Arrhenius

    PANSPERMIA, Svante Arrhenius
    He restart in 1906 the idea of Hermann Richter (life come from the universe) formulating the panspermia theory.
  • CHEMICAL EVOLUTION, Oparin-Haldane

    CHEMICAL EVOLUTION, Oparin-Haldane
    In 1922 Oparin explained his hypothesis, and in 1924 he presented it. Haldane worked independientely and he had very similar ideas to Oparin's.
  • NEUTRALISM, Motoo Kimura

    NEUTRALISM, Motoo Kimura
    he knew a lot of information about genetic and he made the theory of neutralism
  • CHEMICAL EVOLUTION, Stanley Miller

    CHEMICAL EVOLUTION, Stanley Miller
    He made an experiment in 1953, recreating the theory of Oparin, and he deduced that this theory could be possible.
  • MINERAL GENESIS, Cairns-Smith

    MINERAL GENESIS, Cairns-Smith
    He defended the mineral genesis, he made the hipothesis of the clays in 1985.
  • HYDROTHERMAL SPRING, Wachtershauser

    HYDROTHERMAL SPRING, Wachtershauser
    He made in 1980 the theory of iron-sulphide world.
  • PUNCTUATED BALANCE, Stephen Jay Gould

    PUNCTUATED BALANCE, Stephen Jay Gould
    sometimes the evolution act a lot and very quickly and other no. he thought it and made the punctuated balance or the jumper theory.