In " Zoonomia ", Darwin advocated the inheritance of acquired characteristics.
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Darwin advocated a hypothesis of pangenesis in the third edition of " Zoonomia ".
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In 1801, Erasmus Darwin advocated a hypothesis of pangenesis in the third edition of his book " Zoonomia ".
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Chambers wrote well after the Pope banned " Zoonomia ", but during the British backlash against progressive ideas, especially foreign French ones like those of de Maupertuis, De Maillet and Lamarck ( 1809 ).
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Those, at least, which were published after his death under the title of " Zoonomia, or the Laws of Animal Life " ( 1804 ), though full of knowledge and exceedingly clear in style, are too technical for a popular audience.
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Some 14 years after Brown's initial edition, the grandfather of Charles Darwin, Dr . Erasmus Darwin, in the introduction to the American edition of 1816 of his " Zoonomia ", placed Brown in the context of the stream of medicine from the time of the Greeks.
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Charles Darwin's grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, published " Zoonomia " ( 1794 1796 ) which suggested that " all warm-blooded animals have arisen from one living filament . " In his poem " Temple of Nature " ( 1803 ), he described the rise of life from minute organisms living in mud to all of its modern diversity.