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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Leading the party was James Hutton, one of the first geologists ... it would provide the canvas for the theory of evolution. Later, it would help astronomers to show that the Earth itself was ...

Although not exactly explained on the signage, it is an interesting juxtaposition of the fanciful and the scientific, the geologist James ... Hutton was a deep thinker, whose seminal work, 1785's ...

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 ...

James Hutton ... important work, Theory of the Earth, is now read by few but geologists. I am not among that enterprising few. Indeed, to my shame, I found no space for Hutton in 101 brief ...