Darwinian Revolution

Theories of Evolution in the 18th Century (1x3)

Air date: Mar 22, 2022

You study three 18th-century thinkers: Benoît de Maillet, who estimated the cosmos to be billions of years old; Georges Buffon, who believed that living things descended from more primal forms; and Pierre Simon Laplace, who proposed a developmental theory for the formation of the solar system.