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Linnaeus
Linnaeus attempts to divide life into kingdoms, classes, orders, genera ,and species. He does not believe that different species are related to each other.
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Paul Revere is born.
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Comte De Buffon
Speculates that living creatures evolve according to natural laws. He believes apes and humans are related to each other.
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King Christian VII of Denmark is born
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Zoonomia
Charles Darwin's flamboyant grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, dared to ask if it would be so bold to think that all warm blooded mammals arose from a solitary filament.
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Lamarck
He thought that living things evolve to become more complex thoroughout time. Vitaly forces within a creature help them adapt to their environments.
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Cuvier
Cuvier argued that a series of catastrophies wiped out certain life in the distant past. Does not believe in evolution but time stood still during disasters, instead.
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Lyell
Slow moving gradual processes explain earths geology. He, along with his mentor, said that there is no vestige of a beginning and no prospect of an end.
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France captures Algeria
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HMS Beagle Voyage
Charles Darwin sets off on his major voyage. What initially started as a 2 year trip transformed into a 5 year journey for him. He returned home with brilliant and budding ideas about evolution.
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HMS Beagle Voyage
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Lord Kelvin
Kelvin states that Earth was created 20-400 million years agoand that it cooled from molten mass. He later asked whether it was enough time for organisms to evolve.
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USA declares war on Mexico
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Wallace
Writes to Darwin seeking advice. Stating natural selection theory and core ideas were simlilar. Prompted Darwin to publish.
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Origin of Species
A book written by Charles Darwin which contained a wealth of evidence and developed a coherent theory for evolution.
He stated that domestic animals faced artificial selection
whereas
Wild animals face natural selection.
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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is published
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Mendel
Mendel realizes traits are inherited through a new thing called "genes"; however, his discoveries go completely unnoticed for awhile.
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Abe Lincoln Assassinated!
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Descent of Man
Darwin writes a new book describing sexcual selection, in which he writes about how individuals must become irresistable to each other in order for the species to reproduce and grow.
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Horse Fossils
Thomas Huxley meets up with Othniel Charles Marsh to piece together fossils of horses from long ago to horses today. The ancestor of the horse is discovered, Eohippus.
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Telephone Invented
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Radioactivity
Antoine Henri Becquerel discovers Radioactivity, which through rock dating helped him calculate approximately how old Earth actually was (4.3 Billion years old).
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First Olympic Games
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NeoDarwinism
A new phiolosophy is fused from Darwin's ideas and principles on evolution from the 19th century and the modern ideas and concepts found in modern genetics. This new philosophy is known as NeoDarwinism.
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DDT
DDT was a widely used substance during the 40s to eliminate mosquitos with malaria and other diseases that would effect crops and people. Soon mosquitos produced new offspring that could sustain life even though people used DDT on them. This heavily reinforced Darwin's evolutionary ideas.
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World War II Ends
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DNA
DNA was discovered in 1953 and helped explain evolution better by increasing our understanding of genes in general by showing us what they did and how they worked. It's considered to be the most prominent biological discovery of the 20th century.
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Humans & Apes
Mary-Clare King and Allen Wilson's discovery showed how closely related humans and apes are to each other. In fact, humans and apes have 98% of their genes in common.
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DNA Codes
New technologies allow scientists to see the change in genetic codes and sequences change over time easier.
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Human Genome
First Draft published that revealed the genetic relationship among humans to other species and completed genetic sequence within humans.
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9/11: The World Trade Center Towers are Bombed
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