On November 24, 1859, famous biologist and founder of the science of evolution Charles Darwin published his seminal treaty 'On the Origin of Species', which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology.
On November 14, 1797, Charles Lyell, British lawyer and the foremost geologist of his day, was born. Lyell was a close friend to Charles Darwin and is best known as the author of Principles of Geology, which popularised James Hutton's concepts of uniformitarianism – the idea that the earth was shaped by the same processes still in operation today.
On this day in 1908, the 'Phyletic Museum' was giftet to the University of Jena due to its 350th anniversary by Ernst Haeckel. The famous zoologist was best known for his approaches in evolution theory.
Ja, wer hätte das gedacht... Dieser Gedanke wird wohl früher oder später jedem durch den Kopf gehen, der einen Blick in diese prallgefüllte Wunderkammer werfen durfte, die Bill Brysons 'kurze Geschichte der alltäglichen Dinge' in sich birgt.