Erasmus Darwin [ Science / Art and Literature / Philosophy ]
… 1792. Résumé Erasmus Darwin (1731-1802) was the author of The Temple of Nature , in which he considers the concept of sociability as one of the keys to the evolution of species: love and sympathy guide the species toward perfection … Erasmus Darwin had developed his own thoughts on the gradual transformation of species through time. The concept of sociability was fundamental to his theory, as Erasmus Darwin explains in his scientific poem The Temple of Nature , which was published posthumously in 1803: indeed, sociability was supposed to lead the species toward ‘greater perfection’ 1 through a series of changes. Erasmus Darwin …
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