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May 15, 2016, 12:00-13:30 EDT: "Spencer, Lamarck e a angústia da influência” [“Spencer, Lamarck, and the Anxiety of Influence”] [Announcement]
NY
United States
Join us as at the Working Group on History of Evolution and Heredity in Brazil (https://www.chstm.org/group/history-evolution-and-heredity-brazil) as Marcelo Monetti Pavani M.A. in Science Education, University of São Paulo (PIEC-USP), LaHBE-USP, discusses aspects of Herbert Spencer’s evolutionary theory, with particular attention to the distinctive way in which Spencer appropriated ideas from Jean-Baptiste Lamarck and addressed Lamarck’s influence on his own theoretical framework.
The lecture will be delivered in Portuguese.
William deJong-Lambert
Professor of History
Bronx Community College, CUNY

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