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A HISTORY OF EVOLUTION
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THE GREEK PERIODS[1]
| GENERAL CONCEPTION OF NATURE: | DIVISIONS OF THE SCHOOLS |
| Mythological | The prehistoric traditions, |
| I. The Three Earliest Schools. | |
| FIRST PERIOD: | The Ionians: Thales (624–548), Anaximander (611–547), Anaximenes (588–524), Diogenes (440– ). |
| Naturalistic | The Pythagoreans (580–430). The Eleatics. Xenophanes (576–489). Parmenides (544– ). |
| II. The Physicists. | |
| Materialistic (Early) |
Heraclitus (535–475), Empedocles (495–435), Democritus (450– ), Anaxagoras (500–428). |
| SECOND PERIOD: | Socrates (470–399), Plato (427–347). |
| Teleological | Aristotle (384–322). |
| The Post-Aristotelians, (so-ealled Peripatetics), inecluding Theophrastus, Preaxagoras, Herophilus, and others. | |
| A. I. The Stoics. | |
| THIRD PERIOD: | II. The Epicureans. |
| Epicurus (341–270). | |
| Materialistic | III. The Sceptics. |
| (Late) | B. I. Eclecticism. |
| Galen (131–201 A. D.). |
