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• Carolus Linnaeus - father of taxonomy
• Thomas Malthus- Malthusian Catastrophe
• Thomas Malthus -population grow geometrically while resources slowly increase or not at all, leading to competition
• Georges Cuvier -established extinction through fossils
• Georges Cuvier - didnt believe organic evolution because of the mummified cats and ibises
• James Hutton- propose theory of gradualism
• Charles Lyell- proposed theory of uniformitarianism
• Gregor Mendel- studied garden peas
• Gregor Mendel- Law of Segregation and Law of Independent Assortment
• Charles Darwin- explained evolution through Natural Selection
• Charles Darwin- Idea of Common Descent
• Charles Darwin- Idea of Gradualism
• Charles Darwin - organisms evolve to adapt
• Alfred Russel Wallace- species evolved because fittest individuals survived and reproduced passing their advantageous
• Hugo de Vries - thought of theory of mutation but his idea of mutation before has nothing to do with the real mutations
• Carl Correns- Behavior of the Progeny of Racial Hybrids
• Erich Von Tschermak- applied mendel's law to artificial selection to improved crop yield
• Rosalind Franklin- x-ray diffraction image of the DNA
• Rosalind Fraklin- also concluded that sugar phosphate backbones were outside the DNA molecule
• James Watson and Francis Crick - discovered that DNA is a double stranded helix
• Jean Baptiste de Lamarck - first to propose about the theory of evolution: Theory of inheritance of acquired traits and theory of use and disuse
• Jean Baptiste de Lamarck - define evolution as process of increasing complexity
• Jean Baptiste de Lamarck- no extinction of species. Species disappeared because they just evolved into different
• Jean Baptiste de Lamarck- organisms adapt to evolve