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The geological evidences of the antiquity of man with remarks on theories of the origin of species by variation.

Publication Details

London: John Murray, 1863 CE.

Lyell’s summary discussion of the evidence for human antiquity “introduced a wide readership to the new view and to the facts that supported it, thus laying the synthetic foundation for future work” (Grayson). This work also contained Lyell’s first published statements about Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.

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Entry Number#204.1
Permanent Linkhttps://staging.historyofmedicine.com/entry/3847
Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLthe-geological-evidences-of-the-antiquity-of-man-with-remarks-on-theories-of-the-origin-of-species-by-variation

Geographic Context

Publication place: London