Evidence has now emerged to suggest that James Hutton also formulated the theory ... principle that lies at the heart of Darwin's theory of evolution. Paul Pearson, professor of palaeoclimatology ...

National Galleries of Scotland On a June afternoon in 1788, James Hutton stood before a rock ... the foundation for Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. "He burst the boundaries of time ...

But it wasn't until the late 1700s -- when Scottish geologist James Hutton, who observed sediments building up on the landscape, set out to show that rocks were time clocks -- that serious ...

These discoveries laid the groundwork for major theories by others about Continental Drift and also made it possible to develop a Theory of Evolution ... The James Hutton Institute is named ...

It was 1809; the intermittently mad George III ruled Britain, in spells; Jean-Baptiste Lamarck had just published the "Zoological Philosophy," James ... of the theory of evolution by natural ...

The second was by the physician William Wells, who had speculated on selection and human evolution ... of the selection theory from a 1797 manuscript by the geologist James Hutton — now chiefly ...

AS we learn from Sir Archibald Geikie in his interesting preface, the history of the later portion of James Hutton's great work on the “Theory of the Earth” is a perplexing question.