The Development of Evolutionary History

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    John Ray

    The first scientist to carry out a thorough investigation the the natural world. He was deeply religious and rejected the possibility of an old and changing world.
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    Carl Linneus

    He devised a two part naming system to classify life forms and name all life on earth.
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    George's-louis de Buffon

    He had an encyclopaedia called Histoire Naturelle which he planned to contain everything known about the natural world. ( published 36 out of 50 volumes.)
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    Etienne Saint-Hillaire

    He said all vertebrates as modification of a singe life form. He defined and identifyed structures having the same relation and position.
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    James Hutton

    He believed the world was continually formed and explained the features of the earthed crust over geological time.
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    Erasmus Darwin

    Formulated one of the first formal theories with ideas such as life evolved from a single common ancestor forming one living filament.
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    Jean Baptist Lamark

    Associated with the discredited theory of heredity " the inheritance of acquired traits". He didn't belive in extinction only in evolving species.
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    George's Cuvier

    Firmly established the fact of extinction of past life forms. Researched into verterbrate, inverterbrate, zoologoly and patentology.
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    Charles Lylell

    The author of "prinicples of geology" with the idea that the earth is shaped by the same operation in process today
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    Charles Darwin

    Established that all species of life have descended from one common ancestor. Popularised the process of natural selection.
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    Gregor Mendel

    He is the founder of modern science of genetics and established the rules of heredity.
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    Alfred Wallace

    Also discovered the natural selection process independently. He also created the concept of warning colour acting and The Wallace effect.