Does anybody know who #Crusius is talking about here? This looks to me like the earliest account of natural selection. (Entwurf, fn. to § 225, reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs3/object/…)
Translation:
Translation:
"He thinks among others that someone can object that a random coincidence might previously have produced defective and frail animals that thus could not survive, and this continued as long as finally more perfect and persistently enduring species appeared."
The footnote looks like it might have been added in the third edition of 1766. So maybe Crusius is referring to Buffon?
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