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21 ore fa · Charles Darwin's grandfather Erasmus Darwin outlined a hypothesis of transmutation of species in the 1790s, and French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck published a more developed theory in 1809. Both envisaged that spontaneous generation produced simple forms of life that progressively developed greater complexity, adapting to the environment by inheriting changes in adults caused by use or ...
- Charles Darwin
- 1859
4 mag 2024 · May 4 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm. £4.00. Learn more about part of the house that is not normally open to the public on this fascinating cellar tour. Please be aware that there are steps down to the cellar and the cellar floor is very uneven. Minimum age 12 years.
6 giorni fa · Erasmus Darwin's Zoonomia (c. 1795) suggested that warm-blooded animals develop from "one living filament... with the power of acquiring new parts" in response to stimuli, with each round of "improvements" being inherited by successive generations.
2 mag 2024 · Indeed, Darwin’s grandfather Erasmus was both a scientist and a poet. Bergland lays extensive groundwork for the social and cultural forces that shaped each thinker in a time when the sciences and arts were more closely allied.
14 mag 2024 · The Darwinian windmill at hand was developed by Erasmus Darwin. That’s the English physician and notably less famous grandfather of none other than Charles Darwin.
13 mag 2024 · Erasmus Alvey Darwin, nicknamed Eras or Ras, was Charles Darwin’s older brother, born five years before him. They grew up together in the family home, The Mount House, in Shrewsbury, England. Erasmus was the only other son besides Charles, and he was the fourth of six children born to Susannah and Robert Darwin.
17 mag 2024 · Erasmus, Dutch humanist who was the greatest scholar of the northern Renaissance, the first editor of the New Testament, and also an important figure in patristics and classical literature. Learn more about Erasmus’s life, including his various works as well as his legacy.
