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2 giorni 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.
- Charles Darwin
- 1859
7 ott 2024 · Darwin Correspondence Project [View Ɛpsilon collection] Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 13-Supplement.
17 ott 2024 · Epsilon: DCP-LETT-4139F. From Charles and Emma Darwin to William Erasmus Darwin [4 May 1863] Letter and/or further information available at https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/?docId=letters/DCP-LETT-4139F.xml. Also published in The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, vol. 11.
2 giorni fa · Darwin’s other grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, a freethinking physician and poet fashionable before the French Revolution, was author of Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life (1794–96). Darwin’s mother died when he was eight, and he was cared for by his three elder sisters.
- Adrian J. Desmond
- Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection is the foundation upon which modern evolutionary theory is built. The theory was outlined...
- Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution had three main components: that variation occurred randomly among members of a species; that an individual’s t...
- Growing up, Charles Darwin was always attracted to the sciences. In 1825 his father sent him to the University of Edinburgh to study medicine. Ther...
- Charles Darwin was born in England to a well-to-do family in 1809. His father was a doctor, and his mother—who died when he was only eight years ol...
- Charles Darwin’s theories hugely impacted scientific thought. But his ideas also affected the realms of politics, economics, and literature. More i...
3 giorni fa · He developed Lamarck's and Erasmus Darwin's ideas of transmutation and evolutionism, and investigated homology, even proposing that plants and animals had a common evolutionary starting point.
2 giorni fa · The modern synthesis [a] was the early 20th-century synthesis of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and Gregor Mendel's ideas on heredity into a joint mathematical framework. Julian Huxley coined the term in his 1942 book, Evolution: The Modern Synthesis .
21 ott 2024 · Among the early speculations voiced during the 18th century, the British physician Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles Darwin), concluded that species descend from common ancestors and that there is a struggle for existence among animals.
