Erasmus Darwin
Erasmus was a country physician. He believed that women should have access to the same education that men did, and that slavery should be abolished. He also believed that life evolved from a single fi...
26 Jan 201516min
Hutton's Hypothesis
James Hutton saw the power of natural selection, but he didn't see how it could eventually, over vast spans of time, mold an animal into something completely different. That would have to wait until C...
19 Jan 201513min
Diderot's Dream – Updated
Diderot devoured the written word. It was food for his mind and he couldn't get enough of it. He was ravenous when it came to ideas. Especially when those ideas took him into places that others feared...
12 Jan 201516min
Of Mermaids and Men
Benoit de Maillet believed that life, all life, came from the sea. And not only did it come from the sea, but it continued to evolve into different species as it encountered different environments. To...
5 Jan 201520min
Lucretius – Evolution's Poet
In the first century BC the Roman poet Lucretius wrote On the Nature of Things. A poem with 7400 lines of verse that covered everything from the tiniest particles of matter and how they move, as well ...
29 Dec 201414min
The Father of Zoology
Aristotle actually came close to explaining natural selection, 2200 years before Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace did.
22 Dec 201415min
Darwin and God
Charles Darwin questioned everything when it came to the origin of species and the evolution of life here on earth. That questioning led him into some pretty dark places. As he grew more and more cert...
15 Dec 201413min
Darwin or Design
As a young man, the more Charles Darwin learned about nature the more he began to question things. If species were immutable, meaning they never changed, then how was it that breeders were able to cha...
8 Dec 201415min
