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LYELL, Sir Charles (1797 – 1875)

LYELL, Sir Charles (1797 – 1875)

1797 – 1875

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source George J. Stodart · darwin-online.org.uk · Public domain

1863 CE

#204.1

The geological evidences of the antiquity of man with remarks on theories of the origin of species by variation.

Lyell’s summary discussion of the evidence for human antiquity “introduced a wide readership to the new view and to the facts that supported it, thus laying the synthetic foundation for future work” …