Re “Charles Darwin’s enduring hold on us” (Ideas, April 17): Reviewers tend to forget that the theory of natural selection had many fathers, among them Darwin’s own grandfather, Erasmus ...

Erasmus also wrote a book titled Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life in 1794 which today is regarded as one of the earliest ideas relating to the theory of evolution. After leaving medical school ...

Charles and Erasmus Darwin. Share full article. S. RESWICK. June 12, 1909; ... It is true that many people before Charles Darwin entertained the evolutionary theory of origin of species.

50 years ago. Dr Erasmus Darwin, who lived from 1731 until 1802, achieved more in a greater variety of intellectual disciplines than anyone since.

Darwin, Erasmus 1731-1802 Darwin, Charles 1809-1882 Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de 1744-1829 Notes Cover title: Evolution, old & new. Date 1879 Call number QH361 .B986 1879 Type ...

The father of evolutionary theory held women to be intellectually inferior to men, with one notable exception. Michael Sims explains. ... “Erasmus Darwin gave me that. ...