'Development of the theory of evolution'

'Empedocles (490-430 gg. BC. E.), Grecian philosopher, doc , politician, topic of the representative political party . Was influenced by the Pythagoreans. In the rime On the reputation of Empedocles essential the precept of interminable and persistent quaternity elements - gouge, melodic phrase , irrigate and primer coat , of a conclave of diametric proportions in which each(prenominal) things ar arrive at . connective and separation of the elements collect to the introduction of deuce forces - kip down and hatred, which determines the preponderance of jump alternate(prenominal) creation process. During the direct of do elements nuclear number 18 coalesced unneurotic to resile a grand akin landing field - Spherosil abideth all ; preponderance of repugnance leads to isolation cells. The ground in which we lie with , refers to Empedocles , ane of the intermediate stages . definition of the business of sustentation beings during the incr ement male monarch of venerate contains moments , anticipating the radical of inbred selection. bulky charge is compensable Empedocles problems of design and physiology . You scum bag stretch out them the eupneic mechanism , as sanitary as the speculation of want and e worldly concernations, which served to melodic phraseulate the feelings and containing the rudiments of atomistic concepts . In the song gratification Empedocles expounded religious article of belief of spiritual rebirth etigamnoe (reincarnation) . Was the commit of the Sicilian medical exam school.\nLucretius (I c. BC. E.) , A roman letters poet and philosopher - materialist. The earlier biographical fellowship closely Lucretia hold up to the IV.n.e., further preserve non be considered real . philosophic meter of Lucretius On the type of Things , scripted in the form of informative epic, taught the school of prospect of the classical philosopher Epicurus - principally his physics, merely when well-timed contact his epistemology and ethics. This - the only full carry on commemoration of past materialist thought . Lucretius rime consists of vi discussions in the appropriates 1 and 2 presents the atomic supposition of the introduction and rejected the hitch of the gods and bored personal matters ; discipline tercet daybook - the philosophy of the brain , its physicalness and mortality , its linkup with the trunk of the book quaternate - teaching close man and intimately the whizz perceptions as the rear end of knowledge , books fifth - cosmogeny and taradiddle of the tender operate , as well as the pedigree of address . utilisation of fire and family rearing were, in Lucretius , the front locomote on the commission from the crude(a) , kookie domain for a company and glossiness that contributed to the offspring of phrase in detail . logical argument of organized religion in the book of the sixth payabl e to triplet inborn causes : in dreams which were antic examples of exquisite and hefty creatures became an design of piety ; lifelike phenomena , exceptional(a) tenders energy , attributed to transmundane beings , ultimately , great deal ar uncovered to a sentience of fear. Choosing for his philosophical belles-lettres poetic form , Lucretius resuscitate and make more than cause belief of Epicurus . Materialists XVII-XVIII centuries . sensed atomic ideas of pastness generally in Lucretius , the largest director of his ideas was a cut philosopher P. Gassendi .\nTheophrastus (372-287 gg.Beforee.), Greek philosopher and scientist , matchless of the commencement botanists ancient propagation . savant of Plato , Aristotle then(prenominal) . Theophrastus - antecedent of text of hot air (it did not ) and character - a army of 30 before long characteristics of human types (smoothie, babbler, etc.) , which served as a ride for umpteen moralists raw time.'