Evolution (n.) found an early proponent in Anaxagora, (500-428 B.C.) who suggested that man's intelligence arose through the power of manipulation that came when the fore-limbs were freed from the tasks of locomotion.
Evolution (n.) found an early proponent in Empedocles (445 B.C.) who suggested organs arise not by design but by selection, and that organisms are more and more intricately and successfully adapted to their surroundings.
Evolution (n.) found an early proponent in Heraclitus (530-470 B.C.) who believed that all things forever flow and change. Even in the stillest matter there is unseen flux and movement.
Evolution (n.) found another early proponent in Immanuel Kant when the philosopher suggested, in his 1798 lecture on Anthropology, the possibility of the animal origin of man.
Evolution (n.) found an early proponent in Anaximander (610-540 B.C.) who suggested the origin of universe, planets, and man, took form through evolutionary processes from an earlier sea-based world.
Evolution (n.) found an early proponent in Democritus, who argued that there are only atoms and the void. at every moment planets are colliding and dying, and new worlds are rising out of chaos by the selective aggregation of atoms of similar size and shape. There is no design; the universe is a machine.