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Klappentext Anonymously published in 1844! Vestiges was among the first texts to propose a scientific view of the history of creation. Zusammenfassung First published anonymously in 1844! fifteen years before Darwin's Origin of Species! Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation stoked the fires of the controversies surrounding religion and science that dominated the Victorian period by proposing the existence of 'natural laws' and a natural progression of the emergence of species. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The bodies of space - their arrangements and formation; 2. Constituent materials of the Earth and of the other Bodies of Space; 3. The Earth formed - Era of the Primary Rocks; 4. Commencements of Organic Life - sea plants, corals, etc.; 5. Era of the Old Red Sandstone - fishes abundant; 6. Secondary Rocks - Era of the Carboniferous Formation - Commencement of land plants; 7. Era of the New Red Sandstone - Terrestrial Zoology commences with reptiles - first traces of birds; 8. Era of the Oolite - Commencement of Mammalia; 9. Era of the Cretaceous Formation; 10. Era of the Tertiary Formation - Mammalia abundant; 11. Era of the Superficial Formations - Commencemnt of present species; 12. General considerations respecting the origin of the animated tribes; 13. Particular considerations respecting the origin of the animated tribes; 14. Hypothesis of the development of the vegetable and animal kingdoms; 15. Affinities and geographical distributions of organisms; 16. Early history of mankind; 17. Mental constitution of animals; 18. Purpose and general condition of the animated creation; 19. Note conclusory; Appendix.
