Chambers, R.

…However, both theories of evolution are considered to have been developed independently of each other. In the 19th century, some research that was a precursor to C. Darwin's theory of natural selection appeared, but it did not attract attention at the time. It was R. Chambers's book, Traces of the Natural History of Creation (1844), which was a theory of evolution that was a mixture of natural theology and nature, but it attracted general interest and sparked much discussion. H. Spencer's theory of evolution, which appeared just before the publication of C. Darwin's theory of evolution, is very closely related to the idea of ​​progress. …

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…しかし両者の進化論は互いに独立に形成されたと見られている。19世紀になり，C.ダーウィンの自然淘汰説の先駆となる研究もいくつかあらわれたが，当時は注目されず，チェンバーズR.Chambersの著作《創造の自然史の痕跡》(1844)が自然神学との混合のような進化論ではあったが，一般の関心をよび多くの議論を起こさせた。C.ダーウィンの進化学説公表の直前にでたH.スペンサーの進化論では，進歩の観念との関係がきわめて密接である。…

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