Clovis is generally used as a boy's name. It consists of 6 letters and 2 syllables and is pronounced Clo-vis. In the U.S. in 2014 less than 5 boys given the name. Less than 5 girls were given the name. View the Clovis Name Popularity Page to see how the popularity trend for Clovis has changed since 1880, or to compare the popularity of Clovis to other names. The name Clodoveo is a form of Clovis.
In the early 20th century the modern evolutionary synthesis integrated classical genetics with Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection through the discipline of population genetics. The importance of natural selection as a cause of evolution was accepted into other branches of biology.
In the early 19th century Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744 â 1829) proposed his theory of the transmutation of species, the first fully formed theory of evolution. In 1858 Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace published a new evolutionary theory, explained in detail in Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859). Unlike Lamarck, Darwin proposed common descent and a branching tree of life, meaning that two very different species could share a common ancestor.