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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
22 mag 2024 · 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. Darwin's pangenesis
3 giorni fa · Darwin was not the first of his family to gravitate toward naturalism: his father’s father, Erasmus Darwin, was a physician, inventor, and poet who had developed his own theories on the evolution of species. Darwin later married his first cousin on his mother’s side, Emma Wedgwood. Together they had 10 children, 3 of whom died at ...
- 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’s theories hugely impacted scientific thought. But his ideas also affected the realms of politics, economics, and literature. More i...
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.
4 mag 2024 · Details. Date: May 4. Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm. Cost: £4.00. Event Category: Erasmus Darwin House Events. Website: https://erasmus-darwin-house.arttickets.org.uk/ Venue. Erasmus Darwin House Beacon St. Lichfield, Staffordshire WS13 7AD United Kingdom + Google Map.
- Erasmus Darwin House Beacon St, Lichfield, WS13 7AD, Staffordshire
- May 4, 2024
2 giorni fa · The physician and scientist Erasmus Darwin lived in Lichfield between 1758 and 1780. He established a botanic society in 1778 and laid out a botanic garden at Abnalls in Burntwood.
Erasmus floated his own evolutionary theory, in some ways a precursor to Darwin’s. Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life (1794–96) is a two-volume work that explores ideas of species ...
