Darwin, Erasmus,  1731-1802 <br/><br/>
Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoonomia  Release date is 2005-04-25 
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<br/><br/> "Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I" by Erasmus Darwin is a two-volume medical work published between 1794-1796. This ambitious treatise explores pathology, anatomy, psychology, and bodily functions through an associationist framework. Darwin classifies bodily motions into four types and uses them to explain everything from sleep and drunkenness to disease and reproduction. The work is now remembered for its proto-evolutionary ideas about organic transmutation and the inheritance of acquired characteristics—concepts that anticipated later evolutionary theory, though they didn't directly influence Darwin's famous grandson. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Physiology -- Early works to 1800 Pathology -- Early works to 1800 Medicine -- Early works to 1800 Evolution (Biology) -- Early works to 1800 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QP