Evolution Flashcards
1795
He draws attention to the fact that geological record is not a continuous one. He demonstrates the fact of extinction with studies of fossil mammals, and believes the extinctions to have occurred in a series of giant floods.
Georges Cuvier
1773
He suggest that human descended from primates and that creatures can transform their characteristics in response to their environment over long time intervals.
James Burnett, Lord Monboddo
1856
Neanderthal skull and bones are found in Neander valley in Germany.
Neanderthal Discovery
1831
Sets off on HMS Beagle
Charles Darwin
1795
He draws attention to the fact that geological record is not a continuous one. He demonstrates the fact of extinction with studies of fossil mammals, and believes the extinctions to have occurred in a series of giant floods.
Georges Cuvier
1794
He proposes that all warm-blooded animals arose and differentiated from a single from, and anticipates the idea of natural selection.
Erasmus Darwin
1201-1275
He develops a theory of organisms gaining differences through adapting to their environments.
Nasir al-Din al-Tusi
1845
Pioneers the study of ecology and initiates a new focus on the interactions between species and their environments.
Alexander von Humboldt
1735
He develops the modern hierarchical classification system.
Carolus Linnaeus
1749
He envisages a constantly changing world in which species change over time (but reject the idea that this change could head to new species).
Georges Buffon
The process by which living organisms are thought to have develop and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the Earth.
A process of gradual change that takes place over many generation, during which animals, plants, or insects slowly change some of their physical characteristics.
A scientific theory that embodies biology, including all organisms and their characteristics.
Evolution
1958
He independently conceives the theory of evolution by natural selection and co-publishes with Darwin on the subject.
Alfred Russel Wallace
1859
He publishes On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin
1860
Proponents and opponents of Darwin & Wallace’s theories clash in the famous Oxford Evolution Debate; Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) and Samuel Wilberforce (1805-1873) butt heads in a public debate, which both sides consider a victory.
Oxford Evolution Debate
1866
He publishes Experiments in Plant Hybridization, establishing some basic laws of the genetic inheritance of discrete traits.
Gregor Mendel
1868
Applies evolutionary theories to embryology. Subsequently, his work would provide early foundations for the field of evolutionary developmental biology.
Ernst Haeckel
1871
He publishes the Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex.
Charles Darwin
1893
He publishes his germ-plasm theory, which emphasizes the separation of the germ line and soma.
August Weissman
1896
He suggests that adaptation can arise and evolve from plasticity without invoking inheritance of acquired character in A New Factor in Evolution, a concept later known as the Baldwin Effect.
James Mark Baldwin
1909
He provides basic terminology for Genetics, “genes” as particulate units of heredity, “genotype” as the genetic constitution of an organism, and “phenotype” as the organisms physical characteristics.
Wilhelm Johannsen
1910
He produces the paper The Correlation between Relatives of the Supposition of Mendelian Inheritance, showing how the continuous variation measured by biometricians could be the result of the action of many discrete genetic loci.
Ronald Fisher
1925
He publishes in Nature a description of the Taung child, a fossil skull from Taung near Johannesburg of the species Australopithecus.
Raymond Dart
1937
He publishes Genetic and the Origin of Species
Theodosius Dobzhansky
1942
He publishes Systematics and the Origin of Species in which he presents his influential biological species concept.
Ernst Mayr
