Darwin's Ghosts

The Secret History of Evolution

Rebecca Stott, 2012, 576.82 STO Beaverton Lib

• Aristotle 344 BC Lesbos

• Jahiz 850 Bastra Baghdad Book of Living Beings

• Leonardo 1493 Milan

• Bernard Palissy 1570 Paris - Huguenot potter/sculptor, 1572 St. Bartholomew Massacre. Admirable Discourses

• Abraham Trembley 1750 The Hague - Tutor, Polyps

• Benoit de Maillet 1708 Cairo - Description of Egypt 1735, Telliamed 1722-1726, pub 1748 holland

• Denis Diderot 1749 Paris Encyclopedia 1751-1772

• Erasmus Darwin 1767 Derbyshire Zoonomia 1794

• Jean-Baptiste Lamark 1800 Paris Hydrogeology 1802, Reasearches on the Organization of Living Bodies 1802

  • Georges Cuvier opposed
• Robert Grant 1826 Edingburgh, sponges as animals, excretion through pores, Darwin's mentor

• Robert Chambers 1844 Edinburgh, Chamber's Edinburgh Journal, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation 1844

• Alfred Wallace 1858 Malay Archipelago On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type

  • Enclosure Act, Tithe Act, friend Henry Bates. helper Ali, ecountered in 1907 by zoologist Thomas Barbour