MAUPERTUIS, Pierre Louis Moreau de (1698 – 1759)
1698 – 1759
2 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1744 CE
#215.1
Dissertation physique à l’occasion du nègre blanc.
Stimulated by the much talked about appearance of an albino negro in Paris, Maupertuis expressed theories of biparental heredity and epigenesis which substantially anticipated those of Darwin, Mendel, and De Vries nea…
1745 CE
#215.2
Vénus physique, contenant deux dissertations, l’une, sur l’origine des hommes et des animaux, et l’autre, sur l’origine des noirs.
English translation, The earthly Venus, was published in New York, 1966. Includes a reprint of No. 215.1.