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What is evolution? Evolution is the process of living organisms that has developed or changed from earlier forms during the course history on the earth. Over a vast amount of years, there has been an era of proposals and ideas of theories that has tried to explain evolution. This has been seen and investigated by various philosophers and scientists that includes Aristotle, Lamarck, Wallace, Darwin, Gould, Eldridge and Mendle. Due to technological advances such as DNA analysis, these scientists have improved those theories in order to incorporate ideas such as inheritance and natural selection. This technology had the capability of leading new investigations changes in how scientists considered the evolutional relationships between other primates and humans as it can open up to a means to discover …show more content…

Through raising this issues they will be covered that presents the historical development of evolutionary theories.
Aristotle: He was a Greek philosopher who lived between 384-322 BC. His views on biology and physical science provided a basic idea on which one of the first “evolutionary related” theories being developed at the time. From his work, his great idea known as “the great chain of being” also being developed. Aristotle formulated notion was “the great chain of being” of the classification during the ancient Greek times. He’s idea included that all living organisms and matter could be placed within a hierarchical order from the lowest and the most basic up to the highest complex, resulting “perfection” with the highest being divinity or god. Aristotle’s theory “the great chain of being” strongly suggest that all living material would be placed in an organized system from lowest to highest and once

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