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1 giorno 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
5 giorni fa · Harman is careful to accentuate the diversity of views within the ‘culture of nature.’ For example, he traces the development of a concept of ‘active powers’ in matter from James Hutton to Erasmus Darwin while stressing the contrast between Hutton’s deistic eternalism and Darwin’s Lucretian materialism (pp. 304-5).
6 giorni fa · Achievements. Research leading to Darwin's theory of evolution. Route. The second voyage of HMS Beagle, from 27 December 1831 to 2 October 1836, was the second survey expedition of HMS Beagle, made under her newest commander, Robert FitzRoy. (During Beagle's first voyage, Captain Pringle Stokes had died by suicide.
2 giorni fa · Australian researchers have found evidence of the oldest known platypus and a new species, dubbed 'echidnapus', which has a platypus-like anatomy alongside features that more closely resemble an ...
5 giorni fa · In those days of darkness after the sun went down, they needed the light of the full moon to be able to find their way home at night. They were some of the most advanced human beings in the world at that time – and yet about 260 years ago, they had no answer to the darkness of night. Depending on how one thinks about time, that is only 3 or 4 ...
2 giorni fa · Darwin, 1842 yılında en büyük oğlu William Erasmus Darwin ile birlikte Darwin artık "başlıca hobisi" olarak "üzerinde çalışacağı" doğal seçilim teorisinin çerçevesine sahipti.
6 giorni fa · Lunar Lecture - An Evening with John Smedley. Erasmus Darwin House, Lichfield. 23 May 2024. 7.30pm to 8.30pm. HomeExploreEventsLunar Lecture - An Evening with John Smedley. Lunar Lecture - An Evening with John Smedley by Jane Middleton Smith. Art Tickets. The talk will outline the history of a remarkable, family-owned company which this year ...
