Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species

Routledge (2006)
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In this study Dr. Gregory examines how Diderot borrowed from Lucretius, Buffon, Maupertuis, and probability theory, and combined ideas from these sources in an innovative fashion to hypothesize that species are mutable and that all life arose randomly from a single prototype.

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0415955513   9780203943823   1138967688   9780415955515   9781138967687

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