Prosper Lucas
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Prosper Lucas was a French
medical doctor, brother of Pierre-Hippolyte Lucas and specialist in the study of heredity
. For which he wrote Traité philosophique et physiologique de l'hérédité naturelle (Philosophical and physiological treatise on natural heredity) - full title - Traité philosophique et physiologique de l'hérédité naturelle dans les états de santé et de maladie du système nerveux, avec l'application méthodique des lois de la procréation au traitement général des affections dont elle est le principe. Ouvrage où la question est considérée dans ses rapports avec les lois primordiales, les théories de la génération, les causes déterminantes de la sexualité, les modifications acquises de la nature originelle des êtres, et les diverses formes de névropathie et d'aliénation mentale, in two volumes (1847 and 1850), which Charles Darwin
described in The Origin of Species
(1859) as "the fullest and the best on this subject".
Prosper Lucas writes his thesis and presented it on the 28 August 1833, at The Faculté de Médecine de Paris: "De l'imitation contagieuse ou de la propagation sympathique des névroses et des mouvements"
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medical doctor, brother of Pierre-Hippolyte Lucas and specialist in the study of heredity
Heredity
Heredity is the passing of traits to offspring . This is the process by which an offspring cell or organism acquires or becomes predisposed to the characteristics of its parent cell or organism. Through heredity, variations exhibited by individuals can accumulate and cause some species to evolve...
. For which he wrote Traité philosophique et physiologique de l'hérédité naturelle (Philosophical and physiological treatise on natural heredity) - full title - Traité philosophique et physiologique de l'hérédité naturelle dans les états de santé et de maladie du système nerveux, avec l'application méthodique des lois de la procréation au traitement général des affections dont elle est le principe. Ouvrage où la question est considérée dans ses rapports avec les lois primordiales, les théories de la génération, les causes déterminantes de la sexualité, les modifications acquises de la nature originelle des êtres, et les diverses formes de névropathie et d'aliénation mentale, in two volumes (1847 and 1850), which Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin
Charles Robert Darwin FRS was an English naturalist. He established that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestry, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection.He published his theory...
described in The Origin of Species
The Origin of Species
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Its full title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the...
(1859) as "the fullest and the best on this subject".
Prosper Lucas writes his thesis and presented it on the 28 August 1833, at The Faculté de Médecine de Paris: "De l'imitation contagieuse ou de la propagation sympathique des névroses et des mouvements"