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Bill Jenkins, Evolution Before Darwin. Theories of the Transmutation of Species in Edinburgh, 1804–1834

(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019), Edinburgh, Hardback, 2019, 222 pp., £75 Cloth, ISBN: 9781474445788

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Tanghe, K.B. Bill Jenkins, Evolution Before Darwin. Theories of the Transmutation of Species in Edinburgh, 1804–1834. J Hist Biol 53, 203–207 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10739-020-09597-3

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