As we know, there are many theories proposed, before Charles’s Darwin’s theory of evolution. There were many scientists such as Carolus Linnaeus Jean-Baptiste Chevalier de Lamarck, George Cuvier, Charles Lyell and etc. who thought that all scientific inquiry, draws heavily upon its history. Works of this scientists made great contributions prior to Darwin’s theory. Carolus Linnaeus was one of those scientists, who affected Darwin’s ideas.
• Charles Darwin (Charles Darwin)
Charles Robert Darwin was an English naturalist and geologist. He was born on 12 February 1908 in Shrewsbury, England, and died in Down House, London on April 19, 1998 . He was buried at Westminster Abbey (Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster). His father Erasmus
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Natural selection is a process by which species changed over many years in order to survive in their environment. This leads to a struggle for survival. All organisms vary somewhat, and some of these variations provide the individuals with some advantage in the form of better adaptation. The better adapted individuals are those who will be able to reproduce most successfully; they are chosen, so to speak, by nature itself (natural selection). The theory of descent means that offspring inherit the characteristics of their parents and that the various species have evolved from earlier …show more content…
Linnaeus apparently believed that he was just revealing the unchanging order of life created by God. Despite his limiting research prejudice, Linnaeus was a first class scientist. His most important contribution to science was his logical classification system for all living things which he proposed in his book Systema Naturae, first published in 1735. In this, he described plants and animals on the basis of physical appearance and method of reproduction. He classified them relatively to each other according to their similarities. He used a binomial nomenclature (a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin grammatical forms) in naming them. That is to say, organisms were given two Latin names--genus and species. Each genus could have many related species. Each genus was also part of larger categories of living things. This Linnaean system of classification is today the basis for naming and describing organisms in all fields of