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Evolution

Evolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.Life on Earth originated and then evolved from a universal common ancestor approximately 3.7 billion...

Timeline of Events

1831

12.27.1831

Charles Darwin embarks on his journey aboard the HMS ''Beagle'', during which he will begin to formulate the theory of evolution.

1858

6.18.1858

Charles Darwin receives a paper from Alfred Russel Wallace that includes nearly identical conclusions about evolution as Darwin's own, prompting Darwin to publish his theory.

7.1.1858

Joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace's papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.

8.20.1858

Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in ''The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London'', alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.

1925

3.13.1925

Scopes Trial: A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution.

5.5.1925

Scopes Trial: serving of an arrest warrant on John T. Scopes for teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.

5.25.1925

Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Charles Darwin's theory of evolution.

7.10.1925

Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called "Monkey Trial" begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.

7.21.1925

Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching evolution in class and fined $100.