Erasmus Darwin (December 12, 1731 to April 18, 1802) was an English doctor, and the center of an intellectual community in Lichfield,(Staffordshire) where all manner of fresh ideas about natural science and society were debated by humane and intelligent people, in settings of bourgeois refinement. Erasmus Darwin, the grandfather of Charles Darwin, himself spoke of the connectedness of all life, and even formulated a statement about evolution. Also, this exemplar of the English Enlightenment referred
"In his Zoonomia (1794) [to]... the efficient cause of the various colors of the eggs of birds and of the hair and feathers of animals which are adapted to the purpose of concealment....'Thus the snake, and wild cat, and leopard are so colored as to resemble dark leaves and their light interstices '"
This particular formulation was actually found in a book about Lamarck titled: Lamarck, the founder of evolution: his life and work : with translations of his writings on organic evolution (1901) by Alpheus Spring Packard.
"In his Zoonomia (1794) [to]... the efficient cause of the various colors of the eggs of birds and of the hair and feathers of animals which are adapted to the purpose of concealment....'Thus the snake, and wild cat, and leopard are so colored as to resemble dark leaves and their light interstices '"
This particular formulation was actually found in a book about Lamarck titled: Lamarck, the founder of evolution: his life and work : with translations of his writings on organic evolution (1901) by Alpheus Spring Packard.
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