num_pages: 489
description: Published to commemorate the centennial of the publication of Darwin's "Origin of Species", this volume brings together several important essays on the history of the idea of evolution. Included are discussions of Maupertuis, Buffon, Diderot, Kant, Herder, Lamarck, and Schopenhauer by such leading scholars as Arthur O. Lovejoy, Bentley Glass, Owsei Temkin, C. C. Gillispie, Francis C. Haber, and Jane Oppenheimer.
language: English
title: Forerunners of Darwin, 1745-1859
titlecomplete: Forerunners of Darwin, 1745-1859
ratings_count: 3
publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press