From: Jim Armstrong (jarmstro@qwest.net)
Date: Thu Oct 16 2003 - 13:17:38 EDT
Interesting article re James Hutton, publishing in 1794 a chapter on
trait transmission to successive generations and a "most liable to
perish" (natural selection, though not by that name) argument. It
preceeded Origin of the Species in 1859.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-10/cu-ste101403.php
JimA
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