PHIL 293 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Reproductive Isolation, Monism, Essentialism
9 Jan 2017
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G. l. l. de buffon (1707-88) histoire naturalle: he himself must be ranked among animals. J. b. lamarck (1744-1829: adaptation and inheritance, driven by inner need (not evolution, come at length transformed into a new species distinct from the first, inheritance through acquired characteristics, inner need to stretch passes on to future generations. Thomas robert malthus (1766-1834) (population and resource problems, there is a limit to growth: essay on the principle of population (1798, professor of history. Thursday, october 6, 2016: there is now constant nature and therefore there is no state of nature to base our principles on. Decent of man 1871: the expression of the emotion in man and animals 1872. Tree: sorted by time or complexity of species, common ancestor or hierarchal relations with humans at the top, the diagram seems to suggest a temporal aspect - but actually the groups are synchronic.
