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 ...

It is true that many people before Charles Darwin entertained the evolutionary theory of origin of species. View Full Article in Timesmachine » ...

Darwin grew up amid anti-slavery societies -- some started by his free-thinking grandfathers, Erasmus Darwin (the philandering doctor) and Josiah Wedgewood (the Unitarian industrialist).

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 ...

Evolution, old and new, or, The theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, and Lamarck, as compared with that of Mr. Charles Darwin / by Samuel Butler Smithsonian Libraries and Archives ...

The father of evolutionary theory held women to be intellectually inferior to men, with one notable exception. Michael Sims explains.

Not that Darwin, the other Darwin. Erasmus Darwin was Charles Darwin’s grandfather. A doctor and naturalist in his own right as well. He also was a poet and penned down many verses in his life, often ...

That is what Charles Darwin proposed in his 1859 theory of evolution in the book, On the Origin of Species. His idea of "natural selection" suggested that organisms that are better adapted to ...

Dr Erasmus Darwin, who lived from 1731 until 1802, achieved more in a greater variety of intellectual disciplines than anyone since. Why then has he not gained the fame he deserves? Partly ...