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  2. History of evolutionary thought - Wikipedia

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    Scripture informs us that the Deity proceeded by a sort of graduated and ordered advance to the creation of man. After the foundations of the universe were laid, as the history records, man did not appear on the earth at once, but the creation of the brutes preceded him, and the plants preceded them.

  3. Alfred Russel Wallace - Wikipedia

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    Alfred Russel Wallace OM FRS (8 January 1823 – 7 November 1913) was an English [1] [2] [3] naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. [4] He independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection; his 1858 paper on the subject was published that year alongside extracts from Charles Darwin's earlier writings on the topic.

  4. The Phenomenon of Man - Wikipedia

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    The Phenomenon of Man (French: Le phénomène humain) is an essay by the French geologist, paleontologist, philosopher, and Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. In this work, Teilhard describes evolution as a process that leads to increasing complexity, culminating in the unification of consciousness. The text was written in the 1930s, but ...

  5. Timeline of cosmological theories - Wikipedia

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    Aryabhatta puts forward the theory of rotation of the Earth in its own axis and explained day and night was caused by the diurnal rotation of the Earth. He models a geocentric universe with the sun, moon, and planets following circular and eccentric orbits with epicycles. [48] 5th century – The Jewish talmud gives an argument for finite ...

  6. The Sleepwalkers: A History of Man's Changing Vision of the ...

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    Growing materialism has not only deprived man of a meaning in life, but has come into contradiction with the very developments of the most advanced physics. "Mechanism" is now put aside by quantum mechanics and the theory of relativity, in which the role of the observer, and therefore of the human spirit, is decisive in establishing what ...

  7. Discovery of human antiquity - Wikipedia

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    The discovery of human antiquity was a major achievement of science in the middle of the 19th century, and the foundation of scientific paleoanthropology.The antiquity of man, human antiquity, or in simpler language the age of the human race, are names given to the series of scientific debates it involved, which with modifications continue in the 21st century.

  8. Timeline of scientific discoveries - Wikipedia

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    5th century BC: The earliest documented mention of a spherical Earth comes from the Greeks in the 5th century BC. [31] It is known that the Indians modeled the Earth as spherical by 300 BC [32] 460 BC: Empedocles describes thermal expansion. [33] Late 5th century BC: Antiphon discovers the method of exhaustion, foreshadowing the concept of a limit.

  9. 'Oldest living thing' on earth discovered and it may prove ...

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    Scientists have identified the oldest living species on Earth is a deep sea organism that hasn't evolved in more than two billion years. And, it may prove Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution. A ...