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Nature 425, 665 (16 October 2003) | doi:10.1038/425665a
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Paul N. Pearson1
BOOK REVIEWED-An Investigation of the Principles of Knowledge and of the Progress of Reason, from Sense to Science and Philosophy
byJames Hutton
1794Facsimile edition: Thoemmes: 1999.
Following the publication of On the Origin of Species in 1859, Charles Darwin learned (and duly acknowledged) that two previous authors had anticipated the theory of evolution by natural selection. The first account to come to light was by Patrick Matthew, who had briefly outlined the mechanism in an appendix to his 1831 book On Naval Timber and Arboriculture.
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