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BiologyNovember 24, 2009

Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought

Great minds shape the thinking of successive historical periods. Luther and Calvin inspired the Reformation; Locke, Leibniz, Voltaire and Rousseau, the Enlightenment. Modern thought is most dependent on the influence of Charles Darwin

Ernst Mayr

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The SciencesJuly 1, 2000

Darwin's Influence on Modern Thought

Great minds shape the thinking of successive historical periods. Luther and Calvin inspired the Reformation; Locke, Leibniz, Voltaire and Rousseau, the Enlightenment. Modern thought is most dependent on the influence of Charles Darwin

Ernst Mayr

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EvolutionSeptember 1, 1978

Evolution

Introducing an issue devoted to the history of life on the earth a s it is understood in the light of the modern "synthetic" theory of evolution through natural selection, the organizing principle of biology today

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