From the Greeks to Darwin (Classic Reprint): The Development of the Evolution Idea Through Twenty-Four Centuries: The Development of the Evolution Idea Through Twenty-Four Centuries (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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This volume has grown out Of lectures first delivered in Princeton in 1890, upon the period between Buffon and Darwin, and completed in a fuller course delivered in Columbia in 1893, which covered also the period before Buffon. When I began the study, my Obj ect was to bring forward the many strong and true features Of pre-darwinian Evolution, which are so gener ally passed over or misunderstood. When all the materials were brought together from the earliest times, the evidence of continuity in the develop ment Of the idea became more clear, and to trace these lines of development has gradually become the central motive Of these lectures. More thor ough research, which may, perhaps, be stimu lated by these outlines will, I believe, strengthen this evidence.

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