The Origins Of The Origin - BBC R3 Documentary

Category: Education
Language: English
Keywords: Origin Origins
Written by BBC R3 Documentary
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 128 Kbps

BBC Blurb
The connections between French and English evolutionary thought.
Were European academics thinking along the same lines as Darwin,
or were they following separate paths of enquiry? What impact did their
post-revolutionary, secular environment have on their theorising?

Did French academics see the relevance of Darwin’s work when it
was published? And what impact did Darwin’s ‘On The Origin of
Species’ subsequently have on continental evolutionary thought?
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Some illuminating discussion.