The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man: With Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation By Charles Lyell

The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man: With Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation By Charles Lyell
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Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875) is remembered today as much for his profound influence on the young Charles Darwin as for his own work as a geologist: Darwin read the three volumes of his Principles of Geology (1830-3) as they came out, and was greatly interested in Lyell's theory of the huge effects over geological time of an accumulation of tiny, almost unobservable changes. The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man was published in 1863, and went into three editions in that year alone. The work synthesises the then existing evidence for the earliest humans in Europe and North America and - as indicated by its subtitle, With Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation - discusses Darwin's theory and 'the bearing of this hypothesis on the different races of mankind and their connection with other parts of the animal kingdom.'

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Principles of Geology, Volume 2: An Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes now in Operation By Charles Lyell

Principles of Geology, Volume 2: An Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface, by Reference to Causes now in Operation By Charles Lyell
Publisher: C-U==P; 2009 | 356 Pages | ISBN: 110800136X | PDF | 9 MB

In 1830-33, Charles Lyell laid the foundations of evolutionary biology with Principles of Geology, a pioneering book that Charles Darwin took with him on the Beagle. Volume 2 (1832) focuses on plants and animals, and consists of 17 chapters, a comprehensive index and woodcut illustrations of various natural habitats Lyell had observed. The author takes issue with the French biologist Lamarck's theory of the transmutation of species, though Darwin in fact later praised other aspects of Lamarck's work. Lyell examines the connections between the Earth's changing crust and the natural history of many species of birds, insects, mammals and fish. He discusses how wild species physically adapt over time to domestication, the diffusion of plants throughout their specific habitats, geographical distributions of certain types of animals, migratory pattern adaptation due to climate change, hybrid plants, species extinction and how organic deposits, such as moss, on emerging land affect species adaptation.

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