Robert Chambers

Robert Chambers’ masterpiece was titled ‘Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation’. In it he explained how everything evolved. Everything from simple, less complex forms, to more complex forms over time. Evolution Talk is also a book! You can find...

The Case of Patrick Matthew

Patrick Matthew published ‘On Naval Timber and Arboriculture’ in 1831. There were a few positive reviews but they were somewhat tepid in their praise. Only a couple reviewers happened to notice something else that Matthew had mentioned in his book. A...

The Work of WC Wells

William Charles Wells, in no uncertain terms, pointed out that mankind is not immune to nature’s ability to modify an organism’s features over time. Evolution Talk is also a book! You can find links to Amazon, Barnes & Noble and others on the front page...

Unlucky Lamarck

Jean Baptiste Lamarck’s mechanism for evolution was wrong, as history shows, and that fact has haunted his memory ever since. But ideas and theories have ways of being resurrected and, in recent years, there are hints out there that Lamarck wasn’t completely off...

Erasmus Darwin

Erasmus was a country physician. He believed that women should have access to the same education that men did, and that slavery should be abolished. He also believed that life evolved from a single filament that wiggled out of the mud in the distant past. Evolution...