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Period: 610 BCE to
Theory of Evolution
The Theory of Evolution by MSHSFXC -
525 BCE
The first Theories
The first Theory / person to think of evolution and expand on it was Anaximander, Born in 610 BCE and died in 546 BCE he was possibly the first person to think of Evolution as how humans and other animals came to be, he lived in Miletus a city in Ioania, now modern day Türkiye, he was a student of Thales of Miletus and contributed heavily towards to a cosmological or philosophical view of the world so much that he is now regarded as one of the fathers of Western philosophy and science. -
460 BCE
Second Theory of Evolution
After Anaximander came Empedocles, another Greek Philosopher from the years 490 BCE to 430 BCE, he was born near the southwest coast of Sicily during the pre Socratic Era (same as Anaximander) he was known for Originating the cosmogonic theory of the four classical elements (earth, air, fire, and water) and proposing the forces of Love and Strife to mix and separate the elements, respectively, he proposed a basic form of Evolution through natural selection and chance combinations. -
Comparative Anatomy
Comparative anatomy is a field of natural science, it can be traced back to natural philosophers and scientists in Ancient Greece like Aristotle but mainly flourished in the 18th and 19th century, Led by Naturalists like Georges Cuvier, its field of study tries to understand the adaptations that animals undertook in order to evolve into their current form and to adapt to the environments that they live in, its field consists of comparing animals bones like what Pierre Belon did in 1555. -
The Third Theory of Evolution
The Third main Theory of Evolution was the one that most of us are taught now days, Charles Robert Darwin, born on February 12, 1809 and died on April 19, 1882, he lived in Shrewsbury England and died in London, he was the person to officially write a book on Evolution, called 'On the Origin of Species' he worked on it for over 20 years adding to his ideas of Natural selection causing animals to evolve, like and almost every other animals coming from fish or some water dwelling animals. -
Fossil Records
Fossil records or the Study of fossils was started in the 19th century but technologies in the 20th century allowed us to know for a fact date rocks and fossils has helped us be able to understand evolution by being able to take fossils caught in rocks date the rocks and fossils back to possible create a timeline of evolution and when this animals might have been common. -
Carbon Datin
Carbon dating is a method to determine the age of organic material by measuring the decay of Carbon 14, a radioactive form of carbon found in organic material, is has helped us by being able to measure the Carbon in fossils, allowing us to accurately date human skeletons and fossils back to help us understand when this early human lived in time, it was created in the late 1940's by Willard Libby, a chemist in the Uni of Chicago.