In the 1770s, Darwin's grandfather Erasmus Darwin, a physician and philosopher ... Taylor Coleridge mocked this sort of evolutionary theory as "darwinizing." But it was by no means a family ...

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

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 ...

Charles's notorious grandfather Erasmus veered far from conventional ... 1817-1825 (Birth of a Theory) Darwin's family home, The Mount, is not far from new centers of manufacturing, but it remains ...