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Carolus Linnaeus is born
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Carolus Linnaeus
Linnaeus was a Swedish biologist who delevoped a system for naming organisms. He believed that God created every animal and plant and that no more could be created, but he became wary after learning of cross-pollination. He stopped short of concluding that evolution was at work. -
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Georges Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
The Comte de Buffon was an accomplisihed French mathematician. He said that the planets and everything else were not created by a supreme being, but by some sort of organic occurrence. He influenced Darwin and Russell and their theory of Evolution. -
The Comte de Buffon is born
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James Hutton is born
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James Hutton
James Hutton was a Scottish geologist who is usually mentioned with Charles Lyell. He and Lyell believed in uniformitarianism, the thought that earth is slowly changing and has been and will be forever. He might not have known it, but his work helped Darwin think of his Theory of Evolution. -
Erasmus Darwin is born
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Erasmus Darwin
Erasmus Darwin was one of the great thinkers of his time. He was a poet, philosopher, naturalist, fossil hunter, and inventor, but he also contributed to evolutionary theory by writing poems in support of change over time and by writing a book, Zoonomia, over the same topic. -
Jean Baptiste Lamarck is born
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Jean Baptiste Lamarck
Lamarck was a Frnech naturalist who believed in change over time like Darwin did. He also believed, however, in acquired characteristics. So basically, if you rach your arms upward over and over, they will grow, and you will pass the long-arms trait to your children. -
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Georges Cuvier
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Charles Lyell is born
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Charles Lyell
Charles Lyell was a Scottish geologist. He wrote a book called Principles of Geology, in which he stated that earth had been changing for a long time (slowly) and is continuing to. This helped Darwin realize his Theory of Evolution. -
Mary Anning is born
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Mary Anning
Mary Anning was an English fossil collector. She discovered many fossils over her lifetime, many of which supported Darwin's change-over-time theory, even though Darwin hadn't yet proposed it in her lifetime. -
Charles Darwin is born
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Charles Darwin
The Father of Evolution and everything that ever has been or will be associated with it. Also, the entire reason I'm doing this project. -
Gregor Mendel is born
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Gregor Mendel
Mendel is well known for his work with pea plants, but he also unknowingly discovered natural and artificial selection. His work and Darwin's work together is the Modern Synthesis of the Evolutionary Theory. -
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Alfred Russel Wallace
Wallace was an English scientist who came to the same conclusions as Darwin. Helped Darwin introduce the ideas of evolution and natural selection to the scientific society. -
Ernst Haeckel is born
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Ernst Haeckel
Ernst was a Prussian scientist who supported Darwin's theory. He wrote a book, The Radiolarians, in support of Darwin and about his research in the Mediterranean. He also supported Lamarck's theory of acquired traits. -
Hugo de Vries is born
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Hugo de Vries
Hugo de Vries was a Dutch scientist. Mendel's work was not very well known at the time, but de Vries got the same answers Mendel did. He did experiments based on Darwin's writings and discovered genes. -
William Bateson is born
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William Bateson
William Bateson was an English embryologist who came up with the word and study of 'genetics' (along with his multitudes of other experiments) and is now called the 'father of genetics' by many. -
Ronald Ayler Fisher was born
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Ronald Aylmer Fisher
Ronald Aylmer Fisher was statistician who was very fond of eugenics, evolution, and genetics. He earned the nickname the "Father of Evolutionary Genetics," and was the first person to link Darwin's threories with statistics. -
J.B.S. Haldane is born
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J.B.S. Haldane
J.B.S. Haldane was an English mathematician who supported evolutionary theories with math. He used his mathematical equations to support Charles Darwin's idea of natural selection, and contributed to the Modern Synthesis of the Theory of Evolution. -
Theodosius Dobzhansky is born
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Theodosius Dobzhansky
Theodosius Dobzhansky was a prominent geneticist and studied fruit flies. He also wrote a book called Genetics and the Origin of Species, the first time anyone had put to writing the connection between Darwin's theories and genetics. -
Barbara McClintock is born
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Barbara McClintock
Barbara McClintock was an American geneticist who figured out the purpose of centromeres and telomeres. Also, she was the first to describe transposition of chromosomes and how they control which genes are expressed or turned off. This helped explain some adaptations (part of evolution) occur by turning on or off genes. -
Ernst Mayr is born
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Ernst Mayr
Ernst Mayr was a Bavarian biologist who linked Darwin's and Mendel's ideas and was the main man behind the Modern Synthesis of Evolutionary Theory. He also came up with microevolution. -
Mary Leakey is born
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Mary Leakey
Mary Leakey was an English fossil collector who found many fossils of human ancestors, which helped fill the fossil record with information on human evolution. -
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Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin was an English scientist who allegedly discovered the structure of DNA before Watson and Crick did; however, her work was allegedly shown to Watson and Crick without her knowledge. W&C published their paper first and Rosalind Franklin died at the age of 37, only to become a footnote in the evolution of the evolutionary theory. -
Rosalind Franklin is born
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Jane Goodall is born
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Jane Goodall
Jane Goodall is the only person on this list that is still alive today. Her incredible work with primates helped other scientists make evolutionary connections between monkeys, early hominids, which helped prove Darwin's theory of change over time. -
Lynn Margulis is born
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Lynn Margulis
Lynn Margulis was an American woman who discovered the DNA in chloroplasts and mitochondria, which suggests that humans come from single-celled life forms, and helping to prove Darwin's theory.
