Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species

ISBN: 9780415955515

出版社: Routledge

出版年: 2006-10

页数: 208

定价: $ 157.07

装帧: HRD

内容简介

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.