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March 14, 1835, Charles #Darwin set off on an expedition into the Andes, where he collected #fossils and sketched #geology ✏️ https://t.co/6eav0Mz1nu
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March 9, 1847, Mary Anning dies at the age of 47. Her fossil discoveries were some of the most significant paleontological finds of all time ⚒️
https://t.co/X3GBFL5Vl0
February 22, 1875, died #OTD, Charles Lyell, the advocate of modern #geology ⚒️
https://t.co/2kWAuzAK8u
February 18, 1626, birthday of Italian naturalist and physician Francesco Redi. With his experiment, he demonstrated that maggots don't from rotting flesh, disproving the notion of the spontaneous generation of lifeforms 🥩🐛
February 16, 1832, the crew of the HMS Beagle disembarked to explore a tiny set of islands off the coast of Brazil in the Atlantic Ocean. Charles #Darwin recognized they were made from serpentinite thanks to a geological field trip done in 1831 ⚒️ https://t.co/xqCG886S8t
February 13, 1766, birthday of Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus, his writings on #society and #economy influenced Charles #Darwin as a struggle for limited resources would naturally select individuals https://t.co/H6rPO2x3tb
February 11, 1905, birthday of Czech painter, book illustrator and palaeoartist Zdeněk Michael František Burian, whose work played a central role in the development of palaeontological reconstruction 🦖🖌️🎨https://t.co/8JBM9ZPWHC