Forerunners of Darwin, 1745-1859

Professor Bentley Glass; Professor Owsei Temkin; William L Straus
Johns Hopkins University Press
9780801802225
0-8018-0222-9

Published to commemorate the centennial of the publication of Darwin's "Origin of Species", this volume brings together several important essays on the history of the idea of evolution. Included are discussions.

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of Maupertuis, Buffon, Diderot, Kant, Herder, Lamarck, and Schopenhauer by such leading scholars as Arthur O. Lovejoy, Bentley Glass, Owsei Temkin, C. C. Gillispie, Francis C. Haber, and Jane Oppenheimer.