How did thinkers define life before Darwin's theory of evolution?
In short: Before Charles Darwin revolutionized biology, scientists spent centuries grappling with a fundamental mystery: what actually constitutes life? This video explores the diverse ways thinkers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries attempted to answer that question.
The video examines the intellectual landscape of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a period of intense inquiry into the nature of living organisms. Before the modern understanding of evolution, researchers sought to define the essential characteristics that distinguish life from non-living matter.
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- Summary by Intellect · source: Biology Before Darwin: Crash Course History of Science #19
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