The Scientists by John Gribbin & Adam Hook

Author:John Gribbin & Adam Hook
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2019-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

The ‘Darwinian Revolution’

Charles Lyell: his life – His travels in Europe and study of geology – He publishes the Principles of Geology – Lyell’s thoughts on species – Theories of evolution: Erasmus Darwin and Zoonomia – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck: the Lamarckian theory of evolution – Charles Darwin: his life – The voyage of the Beagle – Darwin develops his theory of evolution by natural selection – Alfred Russel Wallace – The publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species.

There were many dramatic developments in science in the nineteenth century, but undoubtedly the most important of these in terms of understanding the place of humankind in the Universe (and arguably the most important idea in the whole of science) was the theory of natural selection, which, for the first time, offered a scientific explanation of the fact of evolution. The name of Charles Darwin is forever linked with the idea of natural selection, and rightly so; but two other names, Charles Lyell and Alfred Russel Wallace, deserve to stand either side of his at the centre of the evolutionary stage.

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