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Nasir al Din al Tusi

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Adaptation

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Carolus Linnaeus

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taxonomy, classification of organisms

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Georges Buffon

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species are changing overtime

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James Burnett

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According to him, humans descended from primates.

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Erasmus Darwin

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introduce natural selection

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Georges Curier

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idea on extinction, the geological record is not coninuous due to extinction based on fossils of mammals

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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

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body parts of organisms leading to changes

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Robert Edward Grant
Efienne Geolfoy Saint-Hidare

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origin of plants and animals
belief that these formed from a single organism or common ancestor

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Charles Lyell

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inspiration to Charles Darwin
arrangement of tertiary period in geological time scale, chronology of tertiary period

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Neanderthal discovery

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skull and bones of neanderthal man was discovered in Germany

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Alfred Russel Wallace

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natural selection
first before charles but their discovery matched, in natural selection (different places)

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Charles Darwin

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descent of modification
origin of species

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Ernst Haeckel

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embryology

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James Mark Baldwin

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adaptability, idea on plasticity

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James Mark Baldwin

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adaptability, idea on plasticity

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Conrad Hal Waddington

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genetic assimilation

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Julian Huxley

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synthesized evolutionary ideas

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Ernst Mayr

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origin of species
deeper study of body processes and evolution

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William Hamilton

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inclusive fitness theory

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Mary Jane West-Eberhard

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development of plasticity

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