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John Ray
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Carl Linnaeus
He was a scientist who dicovered lots of plants and didn't like the way botany was catagorized. He also changed the celsius measuement scale from 100℃ is freezing and 0℃ is boiling to what we use today -
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Georges-Louis Leclerc
He translated Fluxions by Isaac Newton into French. He did the same thing for Vegetable Staticks by Stephen Hale. -
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James Hutton
He was a Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist. He originated the theory of uniformitarianism—a crucial principle of geology—which explains the features of the Earth's crust by means of natural processes over geologic time. Hutton's work established geology as a proper science. -
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Erasmus Darwin
He was a natural philosopher, physiologist, slave-trade abolitionist, inventor and poet. His poems inculded natural history and something statements on evolution. -
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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
He was a French naturalist. He also was a soldier, biologist and an early theory of the idea that evolution occurred and proceeded in accordance with natural laws. He gave the term biology a broader meaning by inventing the term for special sciences, chemistry, meteorology, geology, and botany-zoology. -
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Georges Cuvier
He was a French naturalist and zoologist. He also was a major figure in natural sciences research in the early 19th century and was detremined to establishing the fields of comparative anatomy and paleontology through his work in comparing living animals with the fossils of dead ones. -
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Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
He was a French naturalist who established the principle of "unity of composition". He was a colleague of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and expanded and defended Lamarck's evolutionary theories. Geoffroy's scientific views had a transcendental flavor and were similar to those of German morphologists e.g Lorenz Oken. He believed in the underlying unity of organismal design, and the possibility of the transmutation of different species over a long time, large amounts of evidence for his claim. -
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Charles Lyell
Lyell 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 happening today. The principles of Geology also challenged theories made popular by Georges Cuvier, which were the most accepted and circulated ideas about geology in England back then. -
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Charles Darwin
Darwas an English naturalist and geologist, best known for his contributions to the theory of evolution. He established that all species of life have descended from common ancestors over a long time and in a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding -
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Gregor Mendel
Mendel was a German-speaking Moravian scientist and Augustinian friar who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the modern science of genetics. Though farmers had known for centuries that crossbreeding of animals and plants could favor certain desirable traits, Mendel's pea plant experiments conducted between 1856 and 1863 established many of the rules of heredity, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance. -
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Alfred Russel Wallace
Wallace was a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist. He is best known for independent concept of the theory of evolution through natural selection, his paper on the subject was jointly published with some of Charles Darwin's writings in 1858.