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Period: 1201 to 1274
Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī
Nasīr al-Dīn al-Tūsī develops a theory of evolution with organisms gaining differences through adapting to their environments -
A new naming system
Swedish scientist, Carolus Linnaeus published Systema Naturae, which comprises the common modern naming system of binomial nomenclature. -
Birth of paleontology
French scientist, Georges Cuvier is recognized as the father of Paleontology along as being well known for his rejection of any evolutionary theory from his study of the fossil record. -
Population studies
Thomas Robert Malthus published "An Essay on the Principle of Population." -
First theory of evolution published
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, printed his theory of evolution, which was that evolution happened through the inheritance of acquired features. -
New thoughts on geology
Charles Lyell publishes "Principles of Geology." This made a new view of geology -
The First Essay
Charles Darwin writes an essay about the theory of evolution that was never published. -
Competition for Evolution
Alfred Russel Wallace publishes a paper which have the same idea as Darwin, along with the natural selection. Darwin's friends show Wallace's and Darwin's theories at the Linnean Society. -
The Origin of Species
Darwin becomes ill, his book "The Origin of Species" is published and became popular. -
Heredity experimentation
Mendel's pea plants theory printed, making the background for the basis of natural selection. -
Importance of DNA in heredity
August Weismann writes how significant DNA is to heredity, alongside with germ cell theory. -
Chromosomes and heredity
Walter Sutton suggested that chromosomes basis for Mendelian inheritance of characteristics. -
Genetic material verified
DNA is confirmed to be genetic material which is that inheritance passes from one generation to the next. -
DNA structure discovered
Francis Crick , James Watson and Rosalind Franklin discover the chemical structure of DNA and show that it meets the unique requirements for a substance that encodes genetic information. -
mRNA discovered
Sydney Brenner, Francis Crick, Francois Jacob, and Jacques Monod discover mRNA.