Forerunners of Darwin, 1745-1859 - Johns Hopkins University. History of Ideas Club.; Glass, Bentley (Hiram Bentley), 1906-2005; Straus, William L. (William Louis), 1900-1981; Temkin, Owsei, 1902-2002 (Baltimore (Md.) : Johns Hopkins university press, 1968)
I. Introductory background. Fossils and early cosmology / Francis C. Haber ; Germination of the idea of biological species / Bentley Glass -- II. Eighteenth century. Maupertuis, pioneer of genetics and evolution / Bentley Glass ; Buffon and the problem of species / Arthur O. Lovejoy ; Diderot and eighteenth century French transformism / Lester G. Crocker ; Heredity and variation in the eighteenth century concept of the species / Bentley Glass ; Kant and evolution ; Herder : progressionism without transformism / Arthur O. Lovejoy ; Fossils and the idea of a process of time in natural history / Francis C. Haber -- III. Nineteenth Century. Lamarck and Darwin in the history of science / Charles Coulston Gillispie ; Embryological enigma in the Origin of Species / Jane Oppenheimer ; Idea of descent in post-romantic German biology : 1848-1858 / Owsei Temkin ; Argument for organic evolution before the Origin of Species, 1830-1858 ; Schopenhauer as an evolutionist ; Recent criticism of the Darwinian theory of recapitulation : its grounds and its initiator / Arthur O. Lovejoy.
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Keywords: Evolution (Biology) -- History