Gottfried Reinhold Treviranus was a German naturalist. He was a proponent of the theory of the transmutation of species, a theory of evolution held by some biologists prior to the work of Charles Darwin. He put forward this belief in the first volume of his "Biologie; oder die Philosophie der lebenden Natur", published in 1802, the same year similar opinions were expressed by Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. Treviranus was born in Bremen and studied medicine at Göttingen, … Wikipedia
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