Not that it takes much but mention the name "Darwin" and it usually does the trick!
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/id/pred-nf.html
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/id/pred-nf.html
Quote:Ahead of his time is putting it moderately for Charles Darwin. The father of evolution had conjectures that were only proved, or greatly substantiated, decades after his death in 1882, in some cases not until recently. Today, evidence that unequivocally supports his theory of evolution by natural selection, along with other surmises he had, comes from an array of scientific disciplines.