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William Erasmus Darwin (27 December 1839 – 8 September 1914) was the first-born son, and the eldest of all the children of Charles and Emma Darwin, and the subject of psychological studies by his father.
William Alvey Darwin (1767), morto a diciannove giorni. Dopo la morte della prima moglie, Darwin ebbe una relazione con la tata di suo figlio Robert, Mary Parker. Da tale relazione nacquero due figlie illegittime:
Erasmus Darwin Jr (1759–1799) Elizabeth Darwin (1763, survived 4 months) Robert Waring Darwin (1766–1848), father of the naturalist Charles Darwin; William Alvey Darwin (1767, survived 19 days) The first Mrs. Darwin died in 1770. A governess, Mary Parker, was hired to look after Robert.
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26 feb 2024 · Erasmus Darwin (born Dec. 12, 1731, Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire, Eng.—died April 18, 1802, Breadsall Priory, Derby, Derbyshire) was a British physician, poet, and botanist noted for his republican politics and materialistic theory of evolution. Although today he is best known as the grandfather of naturalist Charles Darwin and of ...
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Biography. William Erasmus Darwin (1839-1914) was born on 27 December 1839, the son of the naturalist Charles Darwin. He was educated at Rugby before entering Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1858 (B.A., 1862; M.A., 1889), and was admitted to Lincoln's Inn in 1861.
Poeta, medico e filosofo (Elston Hall, Nottinghamshire, 1731 - Breadsal, Derbyshire, 1802), nonno di Charles Robert. È autore fra l'altro della Zoonomia (1794-96), trattato filosofico di fisiologia e psicologia, e di due notevoli poemetti: The botanic garden (1789-92) e The temple of nature (post., 1803), per i quali è considerato un ...
Erasmus Darwin discusses the descent of life from a common ancestor, sexual selection, the analogy of artificial selection as a means to understand descent with modification, and a basic concept of what we now refer to as homology.