Jean Baptiste Lamarck- was a Botanist and Zoologist. He was the<span> first to propose that humans evolved </span>from a lower species through adaptations over time. His works inspired Darwin's ideas of natural selection. Charles Lyell- His theory of Uniformitarianism was a great influence on Charles Darwin. Thomas Malthus- was arguably the most influential person on Darwin's ideas. He <span>was not a scientist, he was an economist who understood the populations and their growth or decline</span> James Hutton-was another very famous Geologist
