Abstract
Darwin and Neuroscience: The German Connection.
Highlights
Ernst Mayr, a leading contributor to the modern evolutionary synthesis, once wrote that “the only solid support Darwin received for natural selection was from the naturalists” (Mayr, 1982, p. 511)
As du Bois-Reymond saw it, Darwin had done for species what he had done for nerves
Du Bois-Reymond went on to deliver expositions of the Darwinian theory to large audiences in the Ruhr and the Rhineland. These performances, combined with addresses on Darwin before the Prussian Academy of Sciences, demonstrate his commitment to making evolution known to a broad swathe of scholars, students, and laypeople
Summary
Department of History, University of Colorado Denver, Denver, CO, United States Keywords: Darwin, Emil du Bois-Reymond, Lucretius, Germany, history, nineteenth-century, neuroscience Citation: Finkelstein G (2019) Darwin and Neuroscience: The German Connection. Front. Neuroanat. 13:33.
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