Published to commemorate the centennial of the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species this volume brings together several important essays on the history of the idea of evolution. Included are discussions of Maupertuis Buffon Diderot Kant Herder Lamarck and Schopenhauer by such leading scholars as Arthur O. Lovejoy Bentley Glass Owsei Temkin C. C. Gillispie Francis C. Haber and Jane Oppenheimer.