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Evolutionary Thought Timeline

Patrick Mathew

Patrick Mathew(2) by: Cody Hufford

Patrick Mathew a Scottish land owner. He got most of his research by working on his farms. He also traveled around the world to collect research and talk with people. He never had a science class. He worked really hard and did his research but he left key points out of his theory. He wrote a couple of book about his finding but he didn't publish them.

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Patrick Mathew was born on the 20th of October in 1790. He died in 1874. Patrick travelled a lot but he always ended up back at his orchard in Scotland that was passed down to him by his mother after his father died. He had about 10,000 fruit trees on his orchard. Patrick Mathew anticipated natural selection. Patrick’s theory is just like Charles Darwin’s theory. One of the things that are different is that Mathew did not consider evolution as an ongoing process. Mathew feels that he deserves the credit for the theory of evolution by natural selection because he discovered it way before Darwin. Darwin’s theory is actually correct not Mathews. Mathew thought that a natural disaster happens and it kills off the species and then new species grow and take their place. Darwin says that evolution is a slow ongoing cycle of life. It is constantly changing it never stops.======

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This changes our understanding of life because we don’t have to worry about living and the having to get killed by a natural disaster and then the species after us start all over again. We now know that it is an ongoing cycle of life and death. We are constantly changing. With out Mathew’s theory I feel that Darwin would not have been able to get as far as he did. The tree of life picture I have shows the evolution from little things like bacteria all the way up to man. What I took from this is that we are constantly changing and so is the world we live in. with out Darwin’s theory and Mathews help we would not know why or how we got started.======



=Citations:= //Wikipedia//. (2012, January 27). Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_evolutionary_thought //Wikipedia//. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Matthew

(n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/matthew.html

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