Before Lamarck and Darwin, the evolutionary approach existed only in the form of scattered speculations, sometimes insightful and sometimes fantastic. For example, the earliest texts of the Ayurverda stated that man descended from apes who lived about 18 million years ago, and that man of the modern type arose about 1 million years ago. In the Bible, the creationist description of the creation of the world is interspersed with assumptions about the essentially evolutionary processes of the sequence of origin of plants and animals. Ancient Greek philosopher-splayed a special role in forming the rudiments of evolutionary ideas.
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