Brocchi’s Subapennine Fossil Conchology |
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Authors: | Stefano Dominici |
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Institution: | 1.Museo di Storia Naturale,Università di Firenze,Florence,Italy |
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Abstract: | The Italian geologist Giambattista Brocchi (1771–1826) is presented as a key figure in the historical period preceding young
Charles Darwin’s first work on transmutational theory while on the Beagle. The brief biographical account focuses on Brocchi’s
writings related to his analogy that species have births and deaths like individuals, and culminates in his most important
work, Subapennine Fossil Conchology of 1814. Brocchi’s analogy as an original and fertile way to approach the fossil record was to influence Darwin’s first evolutionary
thinking. Relevant passages of the book are presented for the first time in an English translation. |
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