Diderot and the Metamorphosis of Species
| By: | Mary Gregory |
| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Print ISBN: | 9781138967687 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781135915827 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Copyright: | 2007 |
| Format: | Reflowable |
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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.