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The year 2009 had two important scientific celebrations: “The International Year of Astronomy” and the “Darwin Year”. In Astronomy, four hundred years had passed since the first use of the telescope by Galileo Galilei and publication of the first two planetary laws by Johannes Kepler in the book Astronomia nova, published in Prague in 1609. In Biology, the bicentennial of Darwin’s birthday and the sesquicentennial of the publication of his book The Origin of Species, published in London in 1859, are two important ephemerides of what is now commonly known as the theory of evolution [1]. However, 1809 was also the year of publication in Paris of the book Philosophie zoologique, by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck [2], containing an outline of the theory of evolution, although without the key concept of natural selection that was proposed later by Charles Darwin and, independently, by Alfred Russell Wallace.
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Chalub, F.A.C.C., Rodrigues, J.F. (2011). Preface. In: Chalub, F., Rodrigues, J. (eds) The Mathematics of Darwin’s Legacy. Mathematics and Biosciences in Interaction. Springer, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-0122-5_1
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