Timeline for Evolutionary Bio Fall 2025 by

Charles Darwin 1809-1882

mfrank3_11 — 2025-09-03 13:00:03 UTC

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

mfrank3_11 — 2025-09-03 13:00:03 UTC

Philosophized and questioned the natural world and its sciences.

mfrank3_11 — 2025-09-03 13:00:03 UTC

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

mfrank3_11 — 2025-09-03 13:02:37 UTC

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

mfrank3_11 — 2025-09-03 13:04:39 UTC

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

mfrank3_11 — 2025-09-03 13:06:19 UTC

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

mfrank3_11 — 2025-09-03 13:07:05 UTC

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

mfrank3_11 — 2025-09-03 13:07:42 UTC

Explored the idea that species can go extinct.

mfrank3_11 — 2025-09-03 13:08:30 UTC

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

mfrank3_11 — 2025-09-03 13:09:43 UTC

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

mfrank3_11 — 2025-09-03 13:10:37 UTC

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

mfrank3_11 — 2025-09-03 13:11:19 UTC

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

mfrank3_11 — 2025-09-03 13:12:04 UTC

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

mfrank3_11 — 2025-09-03 13:13:08 UTC

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

mfrank3_11 — 2025-09-03 13:13:44 UTC

Made the connection between evolution and genetics.

mfrank3_11 — 2025-09-03 13:14:47 UTC

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