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The Rise of Evolutionary Biology: Biology Before Darwin

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These pages are part of a site called "Evolution," that accompanies a textbook by the same name. Mark Ridley is the author. Here he discusses theories for species change that were before Darwin published "On the Origin of Species."

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history of evolution, history of evolutionary biology, inheritance of acquired characters, internal force, new species, species change, species change over time, species fixity, transformism, before darwin, jean-baptiste lamarck, lamarck, lamarckian inheritance, pre-darwin evolutionary theory
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