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the theory of evolution by Daniel McColl
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James Usher
was a church archbishop and primate of ireland between 1625 and 1656. he famously puplished the chronology that puplished the time and date of creation -
Carolus Linnaeus
he was the first class scientist most important constribution was his logical classifaction system for all living things that he proposed in his book "systema naturae" that he puplished in 1735. -
William Smith
William Smith was one of the first to publish a geological map of England and while he was doing that he was taking samples of fossils and the process of working and getting samples of rock strata from fossils to tetermain where they came from. -
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
he suggested that different species could degenerate into different organisms. his first notes appeared in 1789. he also published 36 quarto volumes of his Histoire naturelle in his lifetime. -
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
Lamarch wrote a book callled the Philosophie Zoologique which outlined his therioes of the evolution of mammels which includes the possabilites of new species to come. -
George Cuvier
George Curvier wrote his most famous book the animal kingdom in this time frame he wrote his results of his previous researches of living and fossil animals in this book. -
Richard Owen
he was granted the right of first reversal of a dead animal from the zoo to have a look at thier bone structures of the mammels in the zoo to help his research -
charles Darwin
Charles Darwin was a English naturalist, he proposed and provided scientific evidance that all species had evolved. he sdtated his theories in his book the origion of species. -
Robert Chambers
Robert Chambers published a controversial well read book called the vestiges of the natural history of creation. the book proposed an evolutionary scenario for the origions of the solar system on earth.
