Question
Give an account of pre-Darwinian evolutionary thinking.
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Throughout the Middle Ages, there was one predominant component of the European world view: stasis.
- All aspects of nature were considered as fixed and change was unconceivable.
- No new species had appeared, and none had disappeared or become extinct.
The social and political context of the Middle Ages helps explain this world view:
- shaped by feudal society - hierarchical arrangement supporting a rigid class system that had changed little for centuries
- shaped by a powerful religious system - life on Earth had been created by God exactly as it existed in the present (known as fixity of species).
This social and political context, and its world view, provided a formidable obstacle to the development of evolutionary theory. In order to formulate
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