Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life

*Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life*
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Tipus	literatura científica
Fitxa
Autor	Erasmus Darwin
Llengua	anglès
Publicació	1794
Dades i xifres
Gènere	Mémoire i literatura mèdica
Parts	2

Zoonomia; or the Laws of Organic Life (Zoonomia o les lleis de la vida orgànica) (1794) és un llibre mèdic en dos volums escrit per Erasmus Darwin que tracta de la patologia, anatomia, psicologia, i del funcionament del cos. Aquest llibre incorpora idees primerenques sobre la teoria de l'evolució que més tard van ser completament desenvolupades pel seu net, Charles Darwin.

Influències

El poeta romàntic anglès William Wordsworth usà a la Zoonomia de Darwin com a font per al seu poema "Goody Blake and Harry Gill", publicat a les Lyrical Ballads (1798).^[1]

Herència dels trets adquirits

En Zoonomia, Darwin proposa l'herència dels trets adquirits. Ell manifesta que a "tots els animals experimenten transformacions que en part es produeixen per es seves pròpies respostes al plaer o al dolor, i moltes es transmeten a la seva posterioritat." Aquestes manifestacions són similars a les idees sobre l'evolució de Jean-Baptiste Lamarck.^[2]

Darwin proposava la hipòtesi de la pangènesi en la tercera edició de Zoonomia.^[3]

Referències

↑ Wu, Duncan. Wordsworth: An Inner Life. Wiley-Blackwell, 2003, p. 97–98. ISBN 1-4051-1369-3. Vegeu també: Averill, james. (1978). "Wordsworth and 'Natural Science': The Poetry of 1798." Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 77(2). 232–46.
↑ Zirkle, Conway. (1935). The Inheritance of Acquired Characters and the Provisional Hypothesis of Pangenesis. The American Naturalist 69: 417-445.
↑ Deichmann, Ute. (2010). Darwinism, Philosophy, and Experimental Biology. Springer. p. 42. ISBN 978-90-481-9901-3 "Among the other authors were Buffon, who proposes "organic molecules" with affinities to various organs, and, in particular, Erasmus Darwin, who in 1801 anticipated his grandson's concept of pangenesis, suggesting that small particles were given off by parts of the bodies of both parents; and that they are circulated in the blood, ending in the sexual organs from where they could be combined during reproduction in order to form the nucleus of an offspring."

The Genius of Erasmus Darwin. Ashgate Publishing, 2005. ISBN 0-7546-3671-2.

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[Wu2003-1] Wu, Duncan. Wordsworth: An Inner Life. Wiley-Blackwell, 2003, p. 97–98. ISBN 1-4051-1369-3. Vegeu també: Averill, james. (1978). "Wordsworth and 'Natural Science': The Poetry of 1798." Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 77(2). 232–46.

[2] Zirkle, Conway. (1935). The Inheritance of Acquired Characters and the Provisional Hypothesis of Pangenesis. The American Naturalist 69: 417-445.

[3] Deichmann, Ute. (2010). Darwinism, Philosophy, and Experimental Biology. Springer. p. 42. ISBN 978-90-481-9901-3 "Among the other authors were Buffon, who proposes "organic molecules" with affinities to various organs, and, in particular, Erasmus Darwin, who in 1801 anticipated his grandson's concept of pangenesis, suggesting that small particles were given off by parts of the bodies of both parents; and that they are circulated in the blood, ending in the sexual organs from where they could be combined during reproduction in order to form the nucleus of an offspring."

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