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• carolous linnaes


  father of taxonomy, binomal nomenclature
• thomas maltus


  believed that populations grow geometrically while resources slowly increase leading to a competition
• georges cuvier


  established extinction through fossil, believed that the earth is old
• james hulton


  theory of gradualism, great age of the earth
• charles lyell


  theory of uniformatarianism
• gregor mendell 


  law of segragation and law of independent
• charles darwin 


  explained evoulution, organism evolve to adapt
• alfred russel wallace


  realized that species evolved because fittest individuals survived and reproduced passing their advantages
• hugo de vries


  rediscovered mendel's work, theory of mutation but his idea of mutation has nothing to with the real mutations
• carl correns


  worked on the behaviour of the progenery of racial hybrids
• erich van tschermark


  applied mendels laws to artificial selection to improve crop yeild
• rosalind franklin


  worked on the x-ray diffraction
• james watson and francis crick


  discovered that the dna is a double stranded helix
• jean baptiste de lamarck


  first to propose abt the theory of evolution, theory of inheritance of acquired traits and theory of use and disuse