Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection made ... industrialist and anti-slavery campaigner, and Erasmus Darwin, a doctor whose book ‘Zoonomia’ had set out a radical and ...

Erasmus remains Charles's close friend and confidant throughout life. He is one of the few people with whom Charles will share his budding secret thoughts on evolution. At eight years old, Darwin ...

Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus, who died in 1802 ... Zoonomia he even developed his own version of "transmutation," as evolution was then called. He did not, though, come up with a theory as ...

Unlike Darwin's "tree of life," Linnaeus's system does not imply that different species are related through evolution. Each species is a distinct "archetype" and a reflection of God's intent.

That theory, of course, was none other than natural selection, the driving force of evolution. Though scholars have debated just how influential Malthus was in Darwin's thinking, there can be no ...

Darwin’s view here is now amply documented ... selection that is easily and massively documented in the DNA record of evolution. “Variations neither useful nor injurious ...

The other was Erasmus Darwin, a doctor who wrote ... people started paying lots of attention to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, and he carried on adding to and strengthening it.

Alfred Russel Wallace was a great admirer of Darwin and a fellow naturalist. After a variety of zoological discoveries Wallace proposed a theory of evolution, which matched Darwin's unpublished ...

Darwin’s grandfathers — Erasmus Darwin, a physician ... The journey towards his theory of evolution hinged on three primary clues, says Darwin scholar and science historian John van Wyhe.

While Darwin’s almost five-year-long voyage on H.M.S. Beagle and its impact on his theory of evolution is widely recognized ... Later, he followed his older brother Erasmus to medical school in ...