Darwin, Erasmus 1731-1802 creator text utu 2005 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "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.) 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. 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 QP Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15707 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15707 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133352.0 15707