... at I believe account for evolution.” And he named the things that Lamarck and Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus Darwin \(was an evolutionist in the 18th century, at the very end of the 18th century). Erasmus Darwin was ...
... er, Erasmus Darwin \(was an evolutionist in the 18th century, at the very end of the 18th century). Erasmus Darwin was saying exactly the same things that Lamarck said. That sexual selection and adaptation and inhe ...
... eritance of acquire traits. Darwin, as late as the 1860’s, said “You’re distorting me. I agree with Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck on these points.”
That picture of progress through loss, I think traces back to the time that Erasmus Darwin— he had a slogan painted on the side of his carriage: “From seashells everything comes” (the latin ...
And Blake described evolution. Which, obviously, he was getting these ideas from the culture. Erasmus Darwin was contemporary with William Blake and was a very famous intellectual. And so, there was this oral ...
