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Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829)
- Lamarck's scientific theories were largely ignored or attacked during his lifetime; Lamarck never won the acceptance and esteem of his colleagues Buffon and Cuvier, and he died in poverty and obscurity. Today, the name of Lamarck is associated merely with a discredited theory of heredity, the "inheritance of acquired traits." However, Charles Darwin, Lyell, Haeckel, and other early evolutionists acknowledged him as a great zoologist and as a forerunner of evolution.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/lamarck.html
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John Ray (1628-1705)
- One of the most eminent naturalists of his time, John Ray was also an influential philosopher and theologian. Ray is often referred to as the father of natural history in Britain.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/ray.html
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Landmarks In the History of Genetics
- Informative chart presents events by year and theoretical implications. Find the bibliography and links to biographies.
http://cogweb.english.ucsb.edu/EP/DNA_history.html
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Larmarck's Zoological Philosophy
- A searchable online edition of Jean Baptiste Lamarck's "Zoological Philosophy" published in Paris, 1809.
http://members.aol.com/evomech/index.html
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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
- It may seem unusual to include Leonardo da Vinci in a list of paleontologists and evolutionary biologists. Leonardo was and is best known as an artist. Yet he was far more than a great artist: he had one of the best scientific minds of his time. He carried out research in fields ranging from architecture and civil engineering to astronomy to anatomy and zoology to geography, geology and paleontology.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/vinci.html
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Louis Agassiz (1807-1873)
- One of the great scientists of his day, and one of the "founding fathers" of the modern American scientific tradition, Louis Agassiz remains something of a historical enigma. A great systematist and paleontologist, a renowned teacher and tireless promoter of science in America, he was also a lifelong opponent of Darwin's theory of evolution. Yet even his most critical attacks on evolution have provided evolutionary biologists with insights.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/agassiz.html
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Louis Pasteur
- Louis Pasteur was born on December 27, 1822 in Dole, in the region of Jura, France. His discovery that most infectious diseases are caused by germs, known as the "germ theory of disease", is one of the most important in medical history. His work became the foundation for the science of microbiology, and a cornerstone of modern medicine.
http://www.ambafrance.org/HYPERLAB/PEOPLE/_pasteur.html
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Mary Anning (1799-1847)
- Despite the fact that Mary Anning's life has been made the subject of several books and articles, comparatively little is known about her life, and many people are unaware of her contributions to paleontology in its early days as a scientific discipline. How can someone described as 'the greatest fossilist the world ever knew' be so obscure that even many paleontologists are not aware of her contribution? She was a woman in a man's England.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/anning.html
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Nicholas Steno (1638-1686)
- Despite a relatively brief scientific career, Nicholas Steno's work on the formation of rock layers and the fossils they contain was crucial to the development of modern geology. The principles he stated continue to be used today by geologists and paleontologists.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/steno.html
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Patrick Matthew (1790-1874)
- He was not a trained scientist, and his evolutionary insights lie buried in the middle of his books and articles on agriculture and politics. Yet he developed a theory of natural selection nearly thirty years before the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, with both deep differences and remarkable similarities to Darwin's theory.
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/matthew.html
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