british geologist:believed in unifortianism,influened Darwin and convinced people earths history was in geology
james usher
anglican archbishop calculated date of earth with bible was a creationist
comte de buffon
accepted biological change obs. animals who migrated t new climates change due to env. and claimed animals of new world were weaker than old world
george cuvier
natural scientist advocated theory of catastorphism
Jean Baptiste Lamarck
proposed thory of inheritence of aquired charact. he was the first to see the relationship between org. & env. served as natural ancdent to darwins theories
james Hulton
one of the fathers of modern geology saw evidence of past words in up rusting in Earth and asserts unifortianism
Charles Darwin
naturalist on HMS beagle went to galapogos and found adaptiv radition and natural selection
George Mendel
monk conducted bredding with pea plants and found law of segregation and law of independent asortment
FRANCIS Crick and James Watson
formuted DNA structre were both physical chemists
Rosalind Franklin
physical chmeist formulated DNA structure died before reciev nobel prize
Alfred Wallce
biologist had own theory of evolution thought variations in nature god and bad was against artificial selection