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...nd was the physician and naturalist Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles Darwin; in France a little later the chief advocate of the idea was the biologist ...Species (1859), the groundbreaking work in which he introduced his theory. Darwin was not the first to argue for the fact of evolution, but by marshaling so

...d, Edward S., From Soul to Mind: The Emergence of Psychology, from Erasmus Darwin to William James, Yale University Press, 1998. ISBN: 0300075812

...[[Age of Reason]]", where systematic philosophy became common, excluding [[Erasmus]] and [[Niccolò Machiavelli|Machiavelli]] as "modern philosophers". Anothe A broad overview would then have [[Erasmus]], [[Francis Bacon]], [[Niccolò Machiavelli]], and [[Galileo Galilei]] rep

...type=text&pageseq=16]. Related earlier ideas were acknowledged in [https://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F381&viewtype=text&pageseq=20] In the ...nd Species by Natural Means of Selection|separate papers]]. Shortly after, Darwin's publication of ''[[On the Origin of Species]]'' provided detailed support