Timeline of Evolutionary Thought

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Timeline of Evolutionary Thought
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You will need

• Pencil
• Ruler
• Extra wide paper
• Colored pencils
• Active brain and cochlear fibrocytes

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Record on your timeline

• Date
• Name
• Event or contribution (make this short so as not
  to crowd your timeline)
• Allow room for approximately 15 dates.

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• 1700s

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• Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778)
• Father of Taxonomy
• System of classifying organisms

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1773

• Boston Tea Party

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1785

• James Hutton
• Earth is shaped by geological forces that took
• place over extremely long periods of time.
• Theory of Gradualism

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1787

• United States Constitution is signed.

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1798

• Thomas Malthus
• - Essay on the Principle of Population
• - Predicted that the human population
• will grow faster than the space and food
• supplies needed to sustain it.

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1800s
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• Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1809)
• Published his theory of inheritance of
• acquired traits.
• Flawed theory, but one of the first
• to explain how organisms change over
• time.

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• Charles Darwin
• 1831- Sets sail on the H.M.S. Beagle
• 1859- Writes On the Origin of Species
• Proposes theory of natural selection and descent
  with modification

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1833

• Charles Lyell
• Father of Modern Geology
• Principles of Geology
• Gradualism and Uniformitarianism

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1849

• California Gold Rush

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1858

• Alfred Wallace
• - Writes to Darwin about his similar ideas on
  natural selection.

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1858

• William P. Foulke discovers the first
  nearly-complete skeleton of a dinosaur in
  Haddonfield, NJ.

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1861

• The United States Civil War begins.

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1865

• Mendel publishes his papers on inheritance.

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1900s
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1953

• James Watson and Francis crick discover the
  molecular structure of DNA.