historical figures in evolution by Hector Aranda https://padlet.com/HECTORTHEKIDJR/qwyitdiijqlr en-us 2018-03-13 17:20:52 UTC 2023-06-18 12:44:36 UTC hello@padlet.com charles darwin HECTORTHEKIDJR https://padlet.com/HECTORTHEKIDJR/qwyitdiijqlr/wish/241520352 English naturalist, geologist and biologist, best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors and, in a joint publication with Alfred Russel Wallace, introduced his scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection, in which the struggle for existence has a similar effect to the artificial selection involved in selective breeding.]]> 2018-03-13 17:22:04 UTC https://padlet.com/HECTORTHEKIDJR/qwyitdiijqlr/wish/241520352 james hutton HECTORTHEKIDJR https://padlet.com/HECTORTHEKIDJR/qwyitdiijqlr/wish/241524379 a Scottish geologist, physician, chemical manufacturer, naturalist, and experimental agriculturalist. He originated the theory of uniformitarianism—a fundamental principle of geology—that explains the features of the Earth's crust by means of natural processes over geologic time. Hutton's work established geology as a science, and as a result he is referred to as the "Father of Modern Geology".]]> 2018-03-13 17:28:14 UTC https://padlet.com/HECTORTHEKIDJR/qwyitdiijqlr/wish/241524379 lucretius HECTORTHEKIDJR https://padlet.com/HECTORTHEKIDJR/qwyitdiijqlr/wish/241524855  Roman poet and philosopher. His only known work is the philosophical poem De rerum natura, a didactic work about the tenets and philosophy of Epicureanism, and which is usually translated into English as On the Nature of Things. Lucretius has been credited with originating the concept of the three-age system which was formalised from 1834 by C. J. Thomsen.]]> 2018-03-13 17:29:01 UTC https://padlet.com/HECTORTHEKIDJR/qwyitdiijqlr/wish/241524855 carl linnaeus HECTORTHEKIDJR https://padlet.com/HECTORTHEKIDJR/qwyitdiijqlr/wish/241525481 known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné (Swedish pronunciation), was a Swedish botanist, physician and zoologist, who formalised the modern system of naming organisms called binomial nomenclature. He is known by the epithet "father of modern taxonomy". Many of his writings were in Latin and his name is rendered in Latin as Carolus Linnæus]]> 2018-03-13 17:29:58 UTC https://padlet.com/HECTORTHEKIDJR/qwyitdiijqlr/wish/241525481 alfred russel wallace HECTORTHEKIDJR https://padlet.com/HECTORTHEKIDJR/qwyitdiijqlr/wish/241527366  a British naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, and biologist. He is best known for independently conceiving the theory of evolution through natural selection; his paper on the subject was jointly published with some of Charles Darwin's writings in 1858. This prompted Darwin to publish his own ideas in On the Origin of Species. Wallace did extensive fieldwork, first in the Amazon River basin and then in the Malay Archipelago, where he identified the faunal divide now termed the Wallace Line, which separates the Indonesian archipelago into two distinct parts: a western portion in which the animals are largely of Asian origin, and an eastern portion where the fauna reflect Australasia.]]> 2018-03-13 17:32:51 UTC https://padlet.com/HECTORTHEKIDJR/qwyitdiijqlr/wish/241527366 james watson HECTORTHEKIDJR https://padlet.com/HECTORTHEKIDJR/qwyitdiijqlr/wish/241529238 an American molecular biologist, geneticist and zoologist, best known as one of the co-discoverers of the structure of DNA in 1953 with Francis Crick and Rosalind Franklin. Watson, Crick, and Maurice Wilkins were awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for their discoveries concerning the molecular structure of nucleic acids and its significance for information transfer in living material".]]> 2018-03-13 17:35:36 UTC https://padlet.com/HECTORTHEKIDJR/qwyitdiijqlr/wish/241529238 alfred wegener HECTORTHEKIDJR https://padlet.com/HECTORTHEKIDJR/qwyitdiijqlr/wish/241530083
a German polar researcher, geophysicist and meteorologist..
During his lifetime he was primarily known for his achievements in meteorology and as a pioneer of polar research, but today he is most remembered as the originator of the theory of continental drift by hypothesizing in 1912 that the continents are slowly drifting around the Earth (German: Kontinentalverschiebung). His hypothesis was controversial and not widely accepted until the 1950s, when numerous discoveries such as palaeomagnetism provided strong support for continental drift, and thereby a substantial basis for today's model of plate tectonics.Wegener was involved in several expeditions to Greenland to study polar air circulation before the existence of the jet stream was accepted. Expedition participants made many meteorological observations and were the first to overwinter on the inland Greenland ice sheet and the first to bore ice cores on a moving Arctic glacier.

]]> 2018-03-13 17:36:51 UTC https://padlet.com/HECTORTHEKIDJR/qwyitdiijqlr/wish/241530083 stanley miller HECTORTHEKIDJR https://padlet.com/HECTORTHEKIDJR/qwyitdiijqlr/wish/241530831 an American chemist who made landmark experiments in the origin of life by demonstrating that a wide range of vital organic compounds can be synthesized by fairly simple chemical processes from inorganic substances. In 1952 he carried out the Miller–Urey experiment, which showed that complex organic molecules could be synthesised from inorganic precursors. The experiment was widely reported, and provided support for the idea that the chemical evolution of the early Earth had led to the natural synthesis of chemical building blocks of life from inanimate inorganic molecules. He has been described as the "father of prebiotic chemistry".]]> 2018-03-13 17:37:56 UTC https://padlet.com/HECTORTHEKIDJR/qwyitdiijqlr/wish/241530831