At all grade levels, when the topic of evolution is taught, Charles Darwin is the only person we learn about. No other evolutionists are being raised. Unless the student decides to deepen their knowledge on the subject, they probably would not know that Charles Darwin based his theories on several scholars before him. Contrary to many assumptions, evolutionary theory did not begin with Charles Darwin in 1859. In fact, ideas similar to evolution have existed since the time of the ancient Greeks. The idea of ​​evolution wavered between the time of the Greeks and Victorian England. In Darwin's time, evolution was called “descent with modification” (Thinkquest.org). During the eighteenth century, two church officials provided compelling biblical explanations of biological diversity; Separate Creation: The idea that all creatures were created uniquely by God and organized in a hierarchy with man ranked just below God and stating that the earth is 6,000 years old (berkeley.edu./history/buffon). The average person usually does. I don't question 2,000 years of belief, but this is what Buffon did: 100 years before Darwin. Buffon, in his encyclopedia called Historie Naturelle, describes everything known in the natural world, tests the similarities between humans and apes and even talks about common ancestors. Although Buffon believed in organic change, he did not provide a reasonable mechanism for such changes. He thought that the environment acted directly on organisms through what he called "organic particles". Buffon also published Les Epoques de la Nature (1788) where he suggests that the planet is much older than the 6,000 years that the church had previously claimed (berkeley.edu./history/buffon). Jean Baptiste ...... half of the paper ......k their ideas and I managed to find a theory that worked. There are many other scientists who contributed to the idea of ​​evolution, but I think these three were important. Buffon made a connection between humans and apes. Lamarck had the idea of ​​heredity and Malthus was a great influence in Darwin's breakthrough in evolution.Work CitedEvolution before Darwin" Thinkquest.org. 01 2000. 01 2014 .Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707-1788) "berkeley. edu./history/buffon 10 1995. 01 2014 http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/buffon2.html>.Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744-1829)"berkeley.edu./history/lamarck 10 1995 . 01 2014 .Thomas Malthus (1766-1834 )" berkeley.edu/history/malthus. 10 1995. 01 2014 .