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MATTHEW, Patrick (1790 – 1874)

MATTHEW, Patrick (1790 – 1874)

1790 – 1874

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source Unknown · patrickmatthewproject.wordpress.com - May, W (1912) “Darwin und Patrick Matthew”, Zoologische Annalen vol 4, pp.280-95. · Public domain

1831 CE

#216.3

On naval timber and arboriculture.

The “first clear and complete” anticipation of the Darwinian theory of evolution by natural selection. The appendix to Matthew’s work actually uses the expression, “natural process of selection…