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Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley

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Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley

Edward Clodd

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The idea of evolution did not begin with Darwin, and Clodd traces its long road. He starts with Thales and the Greek thinkers, follows the centuries when inquiry stalled, and carries the story through the Renaissance to Huxley's day. A clear, spirited history of one of humanity's biggest ideas. See how the boldest theory in biology was centuries in the making.

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16 chapters

  1. 1PIONEERS OF EVOLUTION FROM THALES TO HUXLEY
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3CONTENTS.
  4. 4PIONEERS OF EVOLUTION.
  5. 5PART I. PIONEERS OF EVOLUTION FROM THALES TO LUCRETIUS.
  6. 6Table.
  7. 7Part II. THE ARREST OF INQUIRY.
  8. 81. From the Early Christian Period to the Time of Augustine.
  9. 92. From Augustine to Lord Bacon.
  10. 10PART III. THE RENASCENCE OF SCIENCE.
  11. 11Leading Men of Science.
  12. 12PART IV. MODERN EVOLUTION.
  13. 131. Darwin and Wallace.
  14. 142. Herbert Spencer.
  15. 153. Thomas Henry Huxley.
  16. 16INDEX
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