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Development
of
Evolutionary
Thought
 OBJECTIVES
At the end of the lesson student shall be able to ;
 Identify the proponents contribution to the
development of evolution
Match the proponents to evolutionary thought
that was develop over the years
Appreciate the importance of evolution as the
core theme in understanding the diversity of life
 GROUP ACTIVITY
Direction:
Development of Evolutionary Thoughts
Timeline. Trace the development of
evolutionary thoughts by arranging the pictures
given from earliest to the most recent and
identify the contribution of scientist to the
development of evolutionary thought.
 FOLLOW UP QUESTIONS
 What did you do in finding the answer?
 Why is the development of evolutionary
thought important?
 What have you notice on the gender of the
proponents?
 Do you believe that only men have contributed
to the development of evolutionary thought?
EARLY IDEAS : ANCIENT GREEKS (350 BCE)

Anaximander
- Proposed that animals can
be transformed from one
form to another

Empedocles
- Thought that animals
were made up various
combinations of previously
existing parts
EARLY IDEAS : ANCIENT GREEKS (350
BCE)

Aristotle
- Recognized that all
organism are related and
develop a system of
classifying them ; he
proposed that all species
are identical.
18TH CENTURY

Carolus Linnaeus (1761)

- Father of Taxonomy
;He also believed that God
created all organisms and it was
his task to classify them into the
Divine Order of God’s Creation
IDEAS FROM GEOLOGY
18TH- 19TH CENTURY

James Hutton (1785)

-proposed the theory of
Uniformitarianism

Georges Cuvier (1813)

- Proposed the theory of
Catastrophism
IDEAS FROM GEOLOGY
18TH- 19TH CENTURY

Charles Lyell (1833)

- geologist revived
uniformitarianism and
suggested that natural
processes are slow and steady
IDEAS ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES

Erasmus Darwin (1769)

- Charles Darwin’s
grandfather had early ideas
that all animals arose from a
single ‘living filament’
IDEAS ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
Thomas Malthus (1798)
-he wrote an Essay on the
Principle of Population

Jean – Baptiste de Lamarck (1809)

- Proposed that first scientifically
testable evolutionary theory known as
‘inheritance of acquired
characteristics’
EARLY IDEAS ON THE ORIGIN OF
SPECIES

Alfred Russel Wallace (1858)

-proposed that natural selection
was the driving force of evolution

Charles Darwin (1859)

- Proposed natural Selection
EXPANSION OF EVOLUTIONARY
THEORY AFTER DARWIN

Gregor Mendel (1865)

- he proposed the basic law of
inheritance.

Alfred Wegener
- Proposed the theory of plate
tectonics to explain drift
EXPANSION OF EVOLUTIONARY
THEORY AFTER DARWIN

James Watson and Francis

Crick (1953)
-discovered the structure of DNA
EXPANSION OF EVOLUTIONARY
THEORY AFTER DARWIN

Carl Woese ( 1977)

- Reclassified life into three
domains shown in the
phylogenetic tree of life using
new genetic techniques.
- He discovered new group of
prokaryotes called Archaea
Match the evolutionary thought in
column A with its proponents in
column B. Write the letter that
corresponds to your answer on a
sheet of paper
 Column A
A. Alfred Wegener
_______1. Theory of
Inheritance of Acquired B. Jean Baptiste
Characteristics Lamarck
_______2. Theory of
C. Gregor Mendel
Plate Tectonics
_______3. Theory of D. James Hutton
Uniformitarianism E. Charles Darwin
_______4. Theory of
F. Erasmus Darwin
Natural Selection

Column B
Make an essay about “ the importance of evolution
as the core theme in understanding the diversity
of life’’

Instruction : Follow the given format

• Essay must have Introduction, Body and
Conclusion
• Use letter 8.5x 11 in size, margin : Moderate,
Theme Font: Times new Roman, Font size: 12, line
spacing: 1.5
ESSAY RUBRICS
 The knowledge that
scientists have
accumulated over
many centuries will
continue to help us
understand life and its
future
 END

“Evolution is the secret

for the next step”
-Karl Lagerfeld-