____,a predecessor of Darwin,speculated that all mammals had evolved from a single filament and given movement by God.

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____,a predecessor of Darwin,speculated that all mammals had evolved from a single filament and given movement by God.​

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Erasmus Darwin, the grandfather of Charles Darwin, proposed that all mammals had evolved from a single "living filament" given movement by God in his 1794 book "Zoonomia". This idea of common descent was one of the early precursors to Charles Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.

____,A Predecessor of Darwin,speculated That All Mammals Had Evolved from a Single