Lyell, Sir Charles - The Geological Evidences of the Antiquity of Man; with Remarks on Theories of the Origin of Species by Variation

London, John Murray, 1863. First edition. Hardcover. pp. xii, 520, 32 (ads). 8vo. Embossed teal cloth with gilt lettering to spine, and gilt illustration to front board. Illustrated with figures, and woodcuts including a frontispiece and maps. Lyell was an influential geologist, incluencing Darwin et al though initially uncomfortable with the theory of natural selection on account of his religious beliefs; herein he responds to Darwin's theory, tentatively accepting it; Lyell was "responsible for the general acceptance of the view that all features of the Earth's surface are produced by physical, chemical, and biological processes through long periods of geological time." - Britannica. .

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