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New Naming System
Carolus Linnaeus develops the modern hieratical classification system. -
Start of Paleontology
Georges Cuvier demonstrates the fact of extinction with studies of fossil mammals. He believed the extinctions to have occurred in a series of giant floods. -
First Theory of Evolution is Published
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck publishes his theory of evolution: evolution happened through the inheritance of acquired features. -
Neanderthal discovery
Neanderthal skull bones are found in Neander valley in Germany. -
Theory of Evolution is published
Alfred Russel Wallace independently conceives the theory of evolution by natural selection and co-publishes with Darwin on the subject. -
The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin's book "The Origin of Species" is published and became popular. -
Oxford Evolution Debate
Proponents and opponents of Darwin and Wallace's theories argue in the Oxford Evolution Debate. -
Hereditary Experimentation
Gregor Mendel's pea plants theory printed, making teh background for the basis of natural selection. -
Germ-Plasm theory published
August Weissman publishes his germ-plasm theory, which emphasizes the separation of the germline and soma. -
Chromosomes and heredity
Walter Sutton suggested that chromosomes basis for Mendelian inheritance of characteristics. -
Biological Species Concept
Ernst Mayr publishes Systematics and the Origin of Species in which he presents his influential 'biological species concept' -
Genetic Material Verified
DNA is confirmed to be genetic material which is that inheritance passes from one generation to the next. -
Discovery of mRNA
Sydney Brenner, Francis Crick, Francois Jacob, and Jacques Monod discover mRNA. -
Human Genome Sequenced
The human genome is sequenced and assembled. -
Neanderthal Genome Sequenced
Richard Green and colleagues publish a draft sequence of the Neanderthal genome, suggesting that the Neanderthals and modern humans interbred.