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George-Louis Leclerc

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Naturalist
Observed evidence for evolution but didn’t act upon it

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Carl Linneaus

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Physician/Botanist
Father of taxonomy, created binomial nomenclature and hierarchal system

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Baron George Curvier

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Zoologist
Father of paleontology
Discovered fossils and the possibility for extinction

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James Hutton and Charles Lyell

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Geologists
Studied slow, continuous changes in past and present
Uniformitarionism

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Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck

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Biologist
Inheritance of traits (less complex to more complex)
1st testable hypothesis of evolution

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Thomas Malthus

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Economist
Studied human demographic
“An Essay on the Principle of Population”

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Alfred Wallace

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Naturalist
Similar theories to Darwin
Spurred Darwin to publish his findings

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Charles Darwin

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Naturalist
Studied evolution
“On Origin of Species”

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