- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
ONE . From Hunter-Gatherers to Kings of Kings -
TWO . A Wonderful Man -
THREE . The Spoils of an Empire -
FOUR . An Emperor and His Descendants -
FIVE . New Worlds -
SIX . Ray, Linnaeus, and the Ordering of the World -
SEVEN . Journeys Near and Far -
EIGHT . Before the Origin -
NINE . Forms Most Beautiful -
TEN . The Geography of Nature -
ELEVEN . Hearts of Light -
TWELVE . Spoils of Other Empires -
THIRTEEN . Breadfruit and Icebergs -
FOURTEEN . Naturalists in New England -
FOURTEEN . From Muir and Alexander to Leopold and Carson -
SIXTEEN . The Slow Death (and Resurrection) of Natural History - References
- Index
. Before the Origin
. Before the Origin
- Chapter:
- (p.91) EIGHT . Before the Origin
- Source:
- Deep Things out of Darkness
- Author(s):
John G. T. Anderson
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
In which we examine the origins of Darwinian biology through an examination of both the background of late eighteenth-century science and the scientists and inventors who populated the period. These included the French encyclopedist Buffon; Lamarck, the popularizer of the “inheritance of acquired characters” and Darwin’s grandfather, Erasmus Darwin. There is also discussion of the Lunar Society and its members’ importance in the rise of industrial Britain, science, and the Darwin family fortune.
Keywords: Buffon, Lamarck, Lunar Society, Josiah Wedgwood, Erasmus Darwin, evolution, Malthus, The Loves of the Plants
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Illustrations
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
-
ONE . From Hunter-Gatherers to Kings of Kings -
TWO . A Wonderful Man -
THREE . The Spoils of an Empire -
FOUR . An Emperor and His Descendants -
FIVE . New Worlds -
SIX . Ray, Linnaeus, and the Ordering of the World -
SEVEN . Journeys Near and Far -
EIGHT . Before the Origin -
NINE . Forms Most Beautiful -
TEN . The Geography of Nature -
ELEVEN . Hearts of Light -
TWELVE . Spoils of Other Empires -
THIRTEEN . Breadfruit and Icebergs -
FOURTEEN . Naturalists in New England -
FOURTEEN . From Muir and Alexander to Leopold and Carson -
SIXTEEN . The Slow Death (and Resurrection) of Natural History - References
- Index
