The History of Terrorism
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Original Fellows of the Royal Society
1660-Today The Royal Society AKA The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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1635-Today Jardin des plantes
1660-Today The Royal Society AKA The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge
Contributors to the Encyclopedie (1751-1772)
Counts of Buffon
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Founder fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
French male non-fiction writers
French Roman Catholics
French science writers
Members of the Academie Francaise
National Museum of Natural History (France) people
Proto-evolutionary biologists
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1700s During the 18th century, scientific thinkers including Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, and Immanuel Kant argued that humans shared a common origin but had degenerated over time due to differences in climate.[5][6][7] This theory provided an explanation of where humans came from and why some people appeared differently from others. In contrast, degenerationists in the 19th century feared that civilization might be in decline and that the causes of decline lay in biological change. These ideas derived from pre-scientific concepts of heredity ("hereditary taint") with Lamarckian emphasis on biological development through purpose and habit. Degeneration concepts were often associated with authoritarian political attitudes, including militarism and scientific racism, and a preoccupation with eugenics.