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It is long since Mr. Carlyle expressed his opinion that if any poet or other literary creature could really be 'killed off by one critique' or many, the sooner he was so despatched the better; a sentiment in which I for one humbly but heartily concur. Algernon Charles Swinburne		Wednesday Dec 03, 2025
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About Peter Louis Moreau de Maupertuis

	Peter Louis Moreau de Maupertuis
	'Systeme de la Nature: Essai sur la Formation des Corps Organises,' 1751.

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Two years later, this eighteenth-century French mathematician and astronomer hinted with admirable prescience at the role of genetics in evolution: 'The elementary particles which form the embryo are each drawn from the corresponding structure in the parent, and conserve a sort of remembrance of their previous form, so that in the offspring they will reflect and reproduce a resemblance to the parents ... We can thus readily explain how new species are formed... by supposing that the elementary particles may not always retain the order which they present in the parents, but may fortuitously produce differences, which, multiplying and accumulating, have resulted in the infinite variety of species which we see at the present time.'

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