After an admittedly very cursory search, I get the impression that his 'theory' is a bit like Democritus' atomic 'theory': it has the concept, but very little o

After an admittedly very cursory search, I get the impression that his 'theory' is a bit like Democritus' atomic 'theory': it has the concept, but very little of the content of our current understanding (not that this in any way diminishes either of them: to still be discussed today is about as close as you can get to academic immortality.) I also find it interesting that Charles' paternal grandfather, Erasmus Darwin (a doctor, author, active member of the Birmingham Lunar Society and Fellow of the Royal Society) felt that life had evolved. Furthermore, one of his arguments was one also put forward by Charles: an analogy to the breeding of domesticated animals, as can be seen on page 548 of his opus Zoonomia, or the Laws of Organic Life. https://early-evolution.oeb.harvard.edu/sites/hwpi.harvard.edu/files/early-evolution/files/zoonomia.pdf https://early-evolution.oeb.harvard.edu/sites/hwpi.harvard.e...