Darwin referred to this process as "natural selection", though even that was not entirely novel. His grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, among others. Long before his grandson, the noted polymath and ...

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His grandfathers had both been important figures of the Enlightenment: Josiah Wedgewood, industrialist and anti-slavery campaigner, and Erasmus Darwin, a doctor whose book ‘Zoonomia’ had set ...