Forerunners of Darwin : 1745-1859

I. Introductory background

1. Fossils and early cosmology / Francis C. Haber

2. The germination of the idea of biological species / Bentley Glass

II. The Eighteenth century

3. Maupertuis, pioneer of genetics and evolution / Bentley Glass

4. Buffon and the problem of species / Arthur O. Lovejoy

5. Diderot and eighteenth century French transformism / Lester G. Crocker

6. Heredity and variation in the eighteenth century concept of the species / Bentley Glass

7. Kant and evolution / Arthur O. Lovejoy

8. Herder : progressionism without transformism / Arthur O. Lovejoy

9. Fossils and the idea of a process of time in natural history / Francis C. Haber

III. The Nineteenth Century

10. Lamarck and Darwin in the history of science / Charles Coulston Gillispie

11. An embryological enigma in the Origin of Species / Jane Oppenheimer

12. The idea of descent in post-romantic German biology : 1848-1858 / Owsei Temkin

13. The argument for organic evolution before the Origin of Species, 1830-1858 / Arthur O. Lovejoy

14. Schopenhauer as an evolutionist / Arthur O. Lovejoy

15. Recent criticism of the Darwinian theory of recapitulation : its grounds and its initiator / Arthur O. Lovejoy