UC Berkeley
- Extinctions: Georges Cuvier
- Early Concepts of Evolution: Jean Baptiste Lamarck
- Developmental Similarities: Karl von Baer
- Biostratigraphy: William Smith
- Uniformitarianism: Charles Lyell
- Discrete Genes Are Inherited: Gregor Mendel
- Natural Selection: Charles Darwin & Alfred Russel Wallace
- Early Evolution and Development: Ernst Haeckel
- Biogeography: Wallace and Wegener
- Fossil Hominids, Human Evolution: Thomas Huxley & Eugene Dubois
- Chromosomes, Mutation, and the Birth of Modern Genetics: Thomas Hunt Morgan