-as an idea emerges and grows over late nineteenth century

-Ornithodons are a pretty strong proof in the positive

-social environment grows with growing doubt of established order

-and division of Catholic Church results in growing alternatives

-Natural Selection

-better known as Mullerism after Jean Pierre Müller

-Müller's life

-here he is French rather than German due to annexations

-initially wanted to be a priest but instead became a scientist due to his love of the subject

-drawn into Cuvier-Geoffrey debate by studying at Aix-la-Chapelle and as a professor there observes at France

-and he becomes a Lamarckist but he believes the Catholic God ensouled humanity

-believes in the superiority of observation over theory

-following Tidore War (East Indies > ^020723), visits East Indies in 1852

-to observe the dramatic types of life reported, whose findings he think would be most intriguing

-Müller sees life adapted to environment most dramatically in Sulawesi and Jaiolo

-and inspired by works of Alexander von Humboldt which express similarity between species

-while recovering from malaria, answer comes, and he determines the Organic Law of Change

-inspired by Malthusian ideas of survival which he believes apply to animals as well

-upon his return in 1859, writes a paper on tight findings, but he continues to analyze data to analyze his ideas

-intrigues many because ideas of smaller and larger animals are interesting

-also he publishes travelogue which many read

-but nevertheless, inspires massive controversy

-Muller is a self-described "Catholic democrat" in the fashion of O'Connell

-this is an idea which is messed up with the rising specter of the Roman Catholic split

-additionally, he cannot explain how this evolution happens at all

-he says it's through Lamarckism but can't explain how

-to explain how and convince people of this Law, he tries to make it mathematical with demographic data

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-has a passing understanding of mathematics and algebra and their relation to Malthusianism

-based on this, is able to model evolution in the form of the Euler-Muller [Euler-Lotka]Equation

-escalates into Verhulst's logistic model and modelling into predator prey relationship

-uses binomials, other themes

-having gathered demographic evidence of the Law, published as massive book on subject in 1873

-a fairly convincing book but has to compete with a lot

-he suffers attacks from all corners for this, dies in 1879, gets massive funeral

-but is a big idea which makes itself known on the national stage

-successfully becomes leading evolutionary idea in 1920s

-theory of this guy

-dominant theory from late nineteenth century to 1920s

-only discredited in this era by fruit fly inheritance breeding which cannot be reconciled with Lamarckism

-faced with massive break from William Thomson ruling the Earth would cool down before evolution possible

-he did not anticipate Uranescence

-additionally, obstacle in the way shown by the [Weismann barrier]

-which not only threatens Lamarckism but also organic change

-gild the influential theory of Social Lamarckism

-quick leaps in evolution

-an idea people have as a quicker alternative to Lamarckism

-with discovery of [Weismann barrier]putting the entire idea of evolution at risk more gradual version rises

-as something to plug into the hole left in organic change by vacation of Lamarckism

-proof shown in 1911 in paper published by Nikolai Nechayev

-who did experiments with fruit flies which prove it

-in 1919 this is then added together to create the modern evolutionary synthesis