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Philosophized and questioned the natural world and its sciences.

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"Father of modern geology and stratigraphy"- Did research of Earths layers and fossil records

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Reinforced Idea that Earth was significantly older than previously thought and that species could change appearances over time.

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Credited with creating the system used for naming and classifying all living things.

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Explored the idea that species can go extinct.

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Influenced Darwin in believing populations often grow faster than resources appear.

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Introduced idea that organisms potentially pass traits on that they developed during their life, a theory since disproved.

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Responsible for mapping the layers of rock all over England and explaining why/how certain fossils can be found in certain layers of Earth.

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Supported Darwin's idea that the Earth changes very slowly over significant time.

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Created theory of evolution by natural selection and believed in common ancestry.

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Was, at the same time as Darwin, theorizing natural selection.

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Spread Darwin's ideas throughout Europe and worked on some of the first Evolutionary trees.

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Made the connection between evolution and genetics.

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Advanced biological species concepts and our understanding of how to define them as a species.

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Changed understanding of cellular evolution and introduced concepts surrounding symbiotic bacteria which are now widely accepted as fact.

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Introduced and wrote of the idea of "punctuated equilibrium" or the idea that evolution happens quickly in bursts.