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Time line of the theory of evolution

COMTE DE JEAN-BAPTISTE GEORGE


BUFFON LAMARCK CUVIER

1774 1809 1812

COMTE DE BUFFON HIS THEORY WAS THAT ACCORDINGLY,


THOUGHT THAT ANIMALS DEVELOPED AS FOSSILS SHOW THAT
A RESULT OF ACQUIRED
THINGS CHANGED ANIMAL AND PLANT
FEATURES. HE BELIEVED
BY CHANCE SPECIES ARE
THAT IF AN ANIMAL
THROUGHOUT TIME. DESTROYED TIME
UTILIZES A SPECIFIC
AND AGAIN BY
HE ALSO CLAIMED BODILY COMPONENT IN
SUCH A MANNER THAT IT DELUGES AND
THE WORLD WAS AT
BECOMES OTHER NATURAL
LEAST 75,000 YEARS CATACLYSMS, AND
TRANSFORMED, THAT
OLD AND THAT ALTERATION WILL BE THAT NEW SPECIES
HUMANS AND APES PASSED ALONG TO ITS EVOLVE ONLY AFTER
WERE ASSOCIATED OFFSPRING. THAT.
Time line of the theory of evolution
CHARLES ALFRED CHARLES
LYELL WALLACE DARWIN

1830 1855 1859

WALLACE DISCOVERED CHARLES DARWIN


THE FORMATION OF PROPOSED THE THEORY OF
NATURAL SELECTION
EARTH'S CRUST TOOK THEORY BEFORE NATURAL SELECTION AND
PLACE THROUGH PROVIDED EVIDENCES FOR
DARWIN PUBLISHED
THE THEORY OF COMMON
COUNTLESS SMALL ANY OF HIS FINDINGS. ANCESTRY. DARWIN FIRST
CHANGES OCCURRING HE THOUGHT THAT THOUGHT THAT FINCHES ON
OVER VAST PERIODS ORGANISMS THAT ARE THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS
ADAPTED TO THEIR WERE THE SAME BUT AFTER
OF TIME, ALL
LOOKING AT THE CLOSELY
ACCORDING TO SURROUNDINGS WOULD
HE FOUND OUT THAT THEY
KNOWN NATURAL SURVIVE AND PASS ON
HAVE DIFFERENCES WHICH
THEIR CHARACTERISTICS ALLOWED EACH FINCH TO
LAWS.
TO THEIR OFFSPRING. GET FOOD EASILY.

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