The Coming of Evolution: The Story of a Great Revolution in Science

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The author traces the intellectual emergence of evolutionary thought from ancient mythic and early scientific speculations through nineteenth-century debates over gradual change and catastrophism. He follows the geological work that challenged catastrophic explanations, the development and advocacy of uniformitarian principles, and the parallel emergence of natural selection as articulated by Darwin and Wallace. The account combines historical narrative, scientific exposition, and personal recollections of principal figures, showing how accumulated observation, argument, and publication transformed scattered hypotheses into a coherent framework that reshaped biological and geological understanding and influenced broader intellectual life.

TRANSCRIBERS' NOTES

General: Inconsistent capitalisation of Von in Von Hoff as in original

General: No period (full stop) after Mr, Mrs, Dr as in original

Page 24: ) added after 'uniformitarianism' to create matching pair

Pages 33, 171: Inconsistent spelling of Thomson/Thompson as in original.

Page 59: Missing anchor [50] added after dogmatise as this seemed the most likely place

Page 80: " changed to ' after [76] to create matching pair

Page 89: his changed to His in his theories delighted me

Page 94: eniment corrected to eminent

Page 102: re-stocked standardised to restocked

Page 111: . added after September 1855

Page 149: . added after plants and animals

Page 157: lifelong standardised to life-long

Page 167: Wernerianism standardised to Wernerism; index entry for Herschel, J., correspondence with Lyell corrected from non-existent page 183 to page 12