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100	1		_aFenton, Carroll Lane, _d1900-1969
245	1	2	_aA history of evolution
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aTen cent pocket series no. 321
490	1		_aLittle blue book no. 321
500			_aRelease date is 2025-06-12
508			_aCarol Brown, Tim Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
520			_a"A history of evolution by Carroll Lane Fenton" is a concise historical account of science written in the early 20th century. It surveys the development of the idea of organic evolution—what it is, how it works, and how people came to accept it—moving from ancient speculation to modern scientific methods. The book opens with Greek nature-philosophers (Thales, Anaximander, Empedocles, Aristotle, Epicurus, Lucretius), then follows the thread through early Christian thinkers (notably Augustine), medieval Arabic scholarship, and the Renaissance and Enlightenment philosophers (Bacon, Descartes, Leibnitz, Kant) who argued for natural causes. It contrasts fanciful “speculative” writers with the “great naturalists”: Linnaeus’s classification, Buffon’s variability and environment, Erasmus Darwin’s transformist hints, and Lamarck’s use–disuse and branching descent, with support from St.-Hilaire, Goethe, and Treviranus. The core narrative centers on Charles Darwin’s method and synthesis—variation, the struggle for existence, and natural selection—his evidence, the controversy, and Huxley’s public defense. Post-Darwin, it reviews refinements and excesses, then highlights de Vries’s mutation theory and shows how selection and mutation can both operate, closing with the rise of genetics and experimental breeding, alongside ongoing evidence from paleontology, anatomy, and embryology, to affirm evolution as a well-established, continually investigated fact. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cGirard: Haldeman-Julius Company, 1922
653			_aEvolution -- History
700	1		_aHaldeman-Julius, E. _q(Emanuel), _d1888-1951
830		0	_aTen cent pocket series no. 321
830		0	_aLittle blue book no. 321
856	4		_uhttps://archive.org/details/historyofevoluti321fent/page/n1/mode/2up
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76278
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