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Assignment:
Read The Ascent of Man: "The Majestic Clockwork."
Read in Philip Appleman's Norton Critical Edition of Darwin, the excerpt from Lamarck's essay, "Zooloogical Philosophy" (1809) (pp. 44-49), and what both Appleman and Gavin de Beer have to say about Lamarck in their essays on Lamarck:
Philip Appleman, "Darwin: On Changing the Mind," pp. 3-20, and
Gavin de Beer, "Biology before the Beagle," pp. 33-39.
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