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|[The Evolutionary Chain] |
| Darwin’s contribution to science was pivotal to understanding evolution and its role but the history of evolutionary thinking illuminates the nature of science |
|well beyond Darwin’s contribution. |

Contents
Introduction 3
Pre 1800’s 3
Observations and Natural Theology – William Paley 3
Fossils and the birth of Paleontology – Nicholas Steno 4
The Order of Nature – Carolus Linnaeus 5
Old earth, Ancient Life – Leclerc, Buffon 6
Human Populations – Thomas Malthus 7
1800’s 7
Early Concepts of Evolution - Jean Baptiste Lamarck 7
Developmental Similarities - Karl von Baer 8
Biostratigraphy - William Smith 9
Uniformitarianism - Charles Lyell 9
Discrete Genes......

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Approximate Pages: 40 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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