Evolution theories before Darwin
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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