what was proposed for this thought process from the first civilization mentioned above?
They proposed that one type of animal, even humans, could descend from other types of animals.
History of evolutionary thought
Proposals that one type of animal, even humans, could descend from other types of animals, are known to go back to the first pre-Socratic Greek philosophers. A
who popularized the idea of evolution in the mid 1800s Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace. which ancient civilizations helped to shape this thought process? The ancient Greeks, Romans, Chinese, and in medieval Islamic science.
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History of evolutionary thought [SEP] Greeks
Proposals that one type of animal, even humans, could descend from other types of animals, are known to go back to the first pre-Socratic Greek philosophers. Anaximander of Miletus (c. 610—546 BC) proposed that the first animals lived in water, during a wet phase of the Earth's past, and that the first land-dwelling ancestors of mankind must have been born in water, and only spent part of their life on land. He also argued that the first human of the form known today must have been the child of a different type of animal (probably a fish), because man needs prolonged nursing to live.