Nicholas Steno (1638-1686): Steno was a Danish scientist. Steno was an anatomist and bishop in the Catholic Church. He was recognized as “The father of paleontology.” In 1666 Steno found the “tongue stones” were originated from shark’s teeth. After the sharks died, their teeth would turn into stone. Steno’s work also found that the layers of rocks on the sides of mountains …show more content…
Charles Darwin and Malthus:
In “An Essay of the Principle of Population” Malthus proposed over population will lead difficulty in survival, which was majorly supported Darwin’s natural selection. Darwin found that organisms will most like fight for survival under environment pressure.
Kimura and Sewall Wright:
Kimura inspired the works of Sewall Wright, J.B.S. Haldane, and Theodosius Dobzhansky. He studied mainly Sewall Wright’s work, and taught himself the complicated math that needed for his study. “Kimura’s earliest work, the theoretical accomplishments were the development of the "stepping stone" model of migration, based off of Wright 's island model.
Georges Curvier and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
After Lamarck did not believe in distinction, he argued that fossil would involved into living forms. Curvier did not agreed with this and he found evidence that extinction was the major feature of the history of life. Lamarck argued life evolved up a seamlessly from simple to complex, but Curvier proved that “animals were divided by huge gulfs with no intermediates to join