01901cam a22003493u 4500 15707 UtSlPG 20260610133352.0 m cr n 260607r2005||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 QP Darwin, Erasmus, 1731-1802 Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2005 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoonomia Release date is 2005-04-25 Produced by Greg Alethoup, Robert Shimmin, Keith Edkins and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. "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.) Original publication data not identified Physiology -- Early works to 1800 Pathology -- Early works to 1800 Medicine -- Early works to 1800 Evolution (Biology) -- Early works to 1800 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15707 57095 57095