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John Ray
Came up with the Concept of Genus and Species in the late 1600's -
James Hutton
Came up with the Theory of Uniformitarianism. Said that natural forces now changing the shape of earths surface. in other words, The present is the key to understanding the past. -
Carolus Linnaeus (1707-1778)
Carolus Linnaeus was considered the father of Modern Taxonomy for his work on Hierarchical Classification. (1707-1778) -
Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)
ame up with the Concept of Descent, which is really close to modern thinking. Kant speculated that all living things may come from a single ancestral source. -
Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802)
He argued that all life could have a single common ancestor. (1731-1802) -
Carolus Linnaeus
Linnaeus' book "Systema Naturae" was published in 1735. it was about plants and animals on the basis of physical appearance and method of reproduction. -
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829)
Lamarck saw species as not beinf fixed and immutable, but rather in a constantly changing state. (1744-1829) -
George Buffon Books
Limited Edition 44 Volume Natural History Book Series pubished begining in 1749, through 1804. -
Thomas Malthus (1766-1834)
Believed that populations produce many more offspring than can pooibly survive on limited resources generally available. (1766-1834) -
George Buffon
He said that living things do change through time. he specualted that the earth was at least 75,000 years old. he suggested that humans and apes are related. -
Erasmus Darwin
Erasmus Darwins book "Zoonomia: or, the Laws of Organic Life" was published. (1794-1796) -
Alfred Russell Wallace
Published a book with Charles Darwin in 1798. He got inspired from reading "Essay on the Principal of Population" by Thomas Malthus. -
George Cuvier
He believed that there had been natural violent catastrophes, like great floodds. Plants and animals in those areas were often killed. and then new life forms moved in from other areas. -
Charles Lyell
3 volumes of "Principals of Geology" were published tarting in 1830, and ending in 1833. they documented that earth must be very old and that it has been subject to the same sort of natural processes in the past, that is happening today. -
The Typology of Scripture
"The Typology of Scripture", came out in various editions between the years 1845 and 1872. pointed out that the Old Testament presented the history of a continually evolving religion and that the days of creation could well have been some divine measure equivalent to entire eons millions of years long. -
Trofim Denisovich Lysenko (1898-1976)
Under the guidance of Trofim Denisovich Lysenko Lamarck won Stalin's approval, Lamarkian approaches to genetic improvement, animal husbandry, and plant hybrids created severe problems for both Soviet agriculture and Soviet biology. -
Bishop Usher
Bishop Usher believed that God had created the world in 4004 B.C -
Evangelicl Patrick Fairbaim
Fairbaim argued that even literal reading of the Bible permitted a world millions of years older than what was originally thought. -
James Ussher
James counted the generations in the Bible and added them together with modern history and decided that the Creation of Earth was on October 23, 4004 B.C -
Charles Lightfoot
Charles Lightfoot calculated that the Earth was Created at exactlly 9:00 A.M on October 23, 4004 B.C
