Evolution theories before Darwin

Short List Of Evolutionary Theories Before Darwin
When
Who
What
How
1726
Charles-Louis de Secondat
Baron de Montesquieu
Pierre-Louis Moreau
de Maupertuis
Denis Diderot
Evolution
?
Evolution
natural selection
of the fit
change through
natural selection
Evolution
1779
James Burnett Lord
Monboddo
David Hume (d. 1776)
17491778
Georges-Louis Leclerc
Compte de Buffon
Evolution
17121778
1794
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Evolution
Evolution
1800
Erasmus Darwin (Charles
Darwin’s grandfather)
Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
1813
William Charles Wells
Evolution
natural selection
1818
Geoffery Saint-Hilaire
Evolution
c.a. 1820
Robert Grant
Evolution
1831
Patrick Matthew
Evolution
unity of plan;
environment
causes
changes
spontaneous
changes and
environment
natural selection
1844
Robert Chambers
Evolution
1745
1754
1772
Evolution
Evolution
Evolution
natural selection
of the fit
refuted arguments
from design and
miracles
natural selection
of the fit
ape compared
to man
acquired
characteristics
acquired
characteristics
acquired
characteristics
Documents
Venus Physique
Thoughts on the Interpretation
of Nature; Lettre sur les
aveugles ("Letter on the
Blind") (1749)
Dialogs Concerning
Natural Religion
Histoire naturelle,
générale et particulière,
36 volumes
Zoonomia; 1794; Temple of
Nature, 1803
Hydrogeologie, 1801;
“Account of a female of
the white race … causes of
the differences in color and
form between…races of
men” (Royal Society
paper)
Philosophie anatomique
Naval Timber and
Arborculture
Vestiges of Creation