Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species

Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species

Mary Gregory2006
In this study Dr. Gregory examines how Diderot borrowed from Lucretius, Buffon, Maupertuis, and probability theory, and combined ideas from these sources in an innovative fashion to hypothesize that species are mutable and that all life arose randomly from a single prototype.
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