Tag: natural history
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Edinburgh before Darwin: Lamarckism, Natural History and Evolutionary Debate
Edinburgh’s student societies, anatomists and geologists debated species change long before Darwin. This essay reconstructs the Lamarckian world that helped shape his questions.
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Making Nature Historical: Darwin, Revolution and the Politics of Evolution
Evolution made nature historical. This essay places Darwin within Victorian debates about revolution, religion, empire, industrial capitalism and the changing authority of science.