TY  - BOOK
AU  - Darwin,Erasmus
TI  - Zoonomia; Or, the Laws of Organic Life, Vol. I
AV  - QP 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Salt Lake City, UT
PB  - Project Gutenberg
KW  - Physiology -- Early works to 1800
KW  - Pathology -- Early works to 1800
KW  - Medicine -- Early works to 1800
KW  - Evolution (Biology) -- Early works to 1800
N1  - 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
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N2  - "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.)
UR  - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15707
ER  -