William Lawrence (biologist) | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-05-05

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00:00:43 1 Early life and education
00:01:24 2 Career
00:01:32 2.1 Surgical career
00:03:19 2.2 Controversy and Chancery
00:06:25 2.3 Transition to respectability
00:07:19 2.3.1 The 1826 meetings
00:08:27 2.3.2 Gradual change
00:10:48 2.4 Darwin
00:12:13 3 Context
00:13:48 3.1 Lawrence on heredity
00:15:01 3.2 Darlington's interpretation
00:16:21 4 Content of the second book
00:16:30 4.1 The introductory sections
00:18:48 4.2 Evidence from geology and palaeontology
00:19:37 4.3 Summary of ideas on human races
00:21:24 4.4 Ideas on mechanism
00:22:31 4.5 Introduction of the word ibiology/i
00:23:19 4.6 Contradiction of the Bible
00:24:40 5 Ealing Park
00:25:35 6 Personal life and family



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Sir William Lawrence, 1st Baronet  (16 July 1783 – 5 July 1867) was an English surgeon who became President of the Royal College of Surgeons of London and Serjeant Surgeon to the Queen.
In his mid-thirties, he published two books of his lectures which contained pre-Darwinian ideas on man's nature and, effectively, on evolution. He was forced to withdraw the second (1819) book after fierce criticism; the Lord Chancellor ruled it blasphemous. Lawrence's transition to respectability occurred gradually, and his surgical career was highly successful.Lawrence had a long and successful career as a surgeon. He reached the top of his profession, and just before his death the Queen rewarded him with a baronetcy (see Lawrence baronets) shortly before his death in 1867.