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The Evolution of the Idea of Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Jacques Ruffié
Jacques Ruffié*
Affiliation:
Collège de France

Extract

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In fifteen years, one could well say tomorrow, we will enter into the twenty-first century and at the same time cross into a new millennium: the third since the birth of Christ. So the calendar is composed, dates are imposed on us to which we often attach a symbolic value. We celebrate the new year as a happy occasion, full of promises. We exchange wishes of prosperity, health and happiness with our relations and friends. Yet an anniversary is also the opportunity to turn back, to stop for a moment at the roadside and consider the journey so far accomplished.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 33 , Issue 132 , July 1985 , pp. 80 - 94
Copyright
Copyright © 1985 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

References

1 For further details see: J. Ruffié, Le traité du vivant, Collection "Le temps des sciences", Fayard 1982.

2 For further information about the relations between Darwin and Marx (and particularly their correspondence, the authenticity of which is doubted by certain people) see Bernard Naccache Marx, Critique de Darwin, Paris, Vrin, 1980.