Erasmus Darwin
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Erasmus Darwin was an 18th-century English doctor who developed early scientific ideas about how life evolves and changes over time, influencing the thinking of later naturalists including his own grandson Charles Darwin. His work matters because he helped establish evolutionary thinking in natural science before modern genetics, making him an important figure in the history of how we understand the development of living things.
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- 1731
- Died
- 1802
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- 133
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- The poetical works of Erasmus Darwin ...
- Beauties of The botanic garden
- Zoonomia
- The loves of plants
- Gli amori delle piante
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Erasmus Robert Darwin (12 December 1731 – 18 April 1802) was an English physician. One of the key thinkers of the Midlands Enlightenment, he was also a natural philosopher, physiologist, abolitionist, inventor, freemason, and poet.
His poems included much natural history, including a statement of evolution and the relatedness of all forms of life.
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1731 births1802 deaths18th-century English botanists18th-century English medical doctorsAlumni of St John's College, CambridgeAlumni of the University of EdinburghBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyCommons link from WikidataDarwin–Wedgwood familyEnglish abolitionistsEnglish entomologistsEnglish inventors