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Archive for February 12th, 2009

Library of Evolution at Erasmus Darwin House

Thursday, February 12th, 2009

Erasmus Darwin was the grandfather of Charles Darwin whose birthday is celebrated today. Erasmus was born in 1731 and Erasmus came up with a coherent theory of evolution a full 70 years before Charles turned his mind to it. He expounded this in his extraordinary book Zoonomia, or, The Laws of Organic Life which, first [...]

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