People+and+events+in+evolutionary+history

= Important people and events =

__**Stanley Miller**__

1.- Researching possible environments of early Earth.

2.- Miller's woek showed that componunds necessary for life could have been formed in an environment without free oxygen.

__**Raymond Dart**__

1.- Dart descrided a fossil an submited a manuscript to //Nature// Magazine, naming a new species: //Australopithecus africanus.//

2.- Dart belived that fuman culture revolved around acquiring these symbols of strength from the animal kingdom, then using them against the animals and perhaps each other.

__**Louis & Mary Leakey**__

1.- The Leakeys thought their find different enough to constitute a new category of hominids, and called it //Zinjanthropus boisei.//

2.- Leakey's startling suggestion tha the //homo// genus did not evolve from //australopithecus,// but that parallel lineages of hominids were developing at the same time.

__**Don Johanson**__

1.- Johanson discovered that: the bones' size and shape indicated that this individual walked upright, making it the oldest hominid on record to do so.

2.- Johanson an another member of the expedition descovered small bones from one individual, and the team named her Lucy after the Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".

__**C. Wickramsinghe**__

1.- He made the first identification of organic polymers in interstellas grains.

2.- He made the first association of biopolymer with intelestellar dust.


 * __Charles Darwin__**[[image:http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/images/darwin_charles.jpg align="left"]]

1.- Darwin was a Britsh scientist who laid the foundations of the theory of evolution and transformed the way we think about the natural world.

2.- He proposed a theory of evolution occurring by the process of natural selection: gradually, the species changes over time.