{"id":9,"count":6,"description":"Ideas about evolution pre-date Vanderbilt and this case highlights early thinkers. Jean-Baptiste Lamarck\u2019s research on invertebrates helped redefine biology, James Parkinson\u2019s <I>Organic Remains of a Former World<\/I> captured the public imagination, and Mary Anning\u2019s discovery of marine reptiles like the plesiosaur helped lay the groundwork for Darwin\u2019s theory of natural selection. Artifacts include Darwin\u2019s <I>On the Origin of Species<\/I>, Lamarck\u2019s <I>Invertebrates<\/I> (donated by Vanderbilt geologist L.C. Glenn), and a letter from Tennessee botanist Augustin Gattinger to Asa Gray, a leading American botanist and Darwinist, showing how evolutionary science took root before Vanderbilt\u2019s founding.","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/evolution-vu\/section\/foundations\/","name":"Before Vanderbilt: Foundations of Evolutionary Thought","slug":"foundations","taxonomy":"section","parent":0,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/evolution-vu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/evolution-vu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/evolution-vu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/section"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/evolution-vu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item?section=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}