Pioneered the careful study of human anatomy

Francis Bacon

Pioneer in the use of scientific method

Book of Genesis

Lucretius

Believed that early humans were cave-dwellers

James Watson and Watson Crick

Discovered DNA

8

Carolus Linnaeus

Pioneered taxonomy

7

Charles Lyell

The Principles of Geology

6

Geology

field of science that contributed to the ascendancy of modern account of human origin

5

Believed to be the literal account of human creation

Vesalius