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Period: 100 to
theorys of evolution
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Jan 1, 1260
Thomas Aquinas
Thomas Aquinas was born around 1225 and died on 7 March 1274.
Thomas believed that the existence of God is self-evident in itself, but not to us. "Therefore I say that this proposition, "God exists,"
He believed that Adam and Eve had started earth.
He was a very regilgous man. -
René Descartes
René Descartes was born on the 1 of March 1596 and died on the 11 of February 1650.
He had encouraged the use of the metaphor that the universe was a machine, a concept that would come to characterise the scientific revolution.
He had some religous beliefs -
Benoît de Maillet
Benoît de Maillet was born on 12 April 1656 and died on 30 January 1738.
He is known for his observations that the earth could not have been created in an instant because the features of the crust indicate a slow development by natural processes.
He also believed that creatures on the land were from creatures living in the seas.
He thought that the development of the earth took two billion years.
He produced theories that the earth had developed mechanically, without divine guida.nce -
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was born on 1 of August 1744 and died on the 18 of December 1829.
He was the first scientist to formally propose a gradualistic theory of evolution.
The first was that the environment gives rise to changes in animals.
The second principle was that life was structured in an orderly manner and that many different parts of all bodies make it possible for the organic movements of animals.
He is known for Evolution; inheritance of acquired characteristics, . -
Georges Cuvier
Cuvier was born on 23 August 1769 and died on May 13, 1832.
Cuvier was known for making extinction an accepted scientific phenomenon; opposition to gradualistic theories of evolution. -
Robert Chambers
Robert Chambers was born on the 10 of July 1802 and died the 17 of March 1871.
It claimed that the fossil record showed a progressive ascent of animals with current animals being branches off a main line that leads progressively to humanity.
He was evolutionary thinker. -
Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin was born on the 12 February 1809 and died in 19 April 1882.
He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors. His branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection. It had similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding. -
Lynn Margulis
Lynn Margulis was born on March 5, 1938 and died on November 22, 2011.
Margulis was able to make use of new evidence that such organelles had their own DNA that was inherited independently from that in the cell's nucleus.
She proved that animals, plants, and fungi all originated from protists. -
Stuart Kauffman
Stuart Kauffman was born on September 28, 1939 and is 73 years old.
Reproducing peptide, DNA, and RNA collectively autocatalytic sets have now been made experimentally.
complexity of biological systems and organisms might result as much from self-organization and far-from-equilibrium dynamics as from Darwinian natural selection, as well as for applying models of Boolean networks to simplified genetic circuits. -
Al-Jahiz
Al-Jahiz was born in Basra, 781 and died January 869.
He was the first muslim biologist to develop a theory on evolution.
Was the first to discuss the food chains.
He wrote on the effects of the environment on the likelihood of an animal to survive.
Also wrote a lots of books as well
