Re: Date limit set on first Americans

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 Eric Stevens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> It's not a cheap shot. It's a perfectly valid question. My question
> was centred on Philip's part-sentence "How has the authors dealt with
> critiques of similar types of works ... ". This criterion  could not
> be applied to Darwin as at that time there were no 'similar types of
> work'. That point remains equally valid irrespective of whether he
> published en masse (as he did) or in a steady flow of papers.
> 
there were other works out there, his grandfather Erasmus had written 
one, there was Lamark and a couple of others. The idea of evolution did 
not start with Charles Darwin. His contribution was a functional 
mechanism backed up with a mountain of data and close argument intended 
to counter things like Lamarkianism.

Peter

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