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On the First Principles (Greek: Περὶ Ἀρχῶν / Peri Archon; Latin: De Principiis) is a theological treatise by the Christian writer Origen. It was the first systematic exposition of Christian theology. [1] It is thought to have been written around 220–230 AD. The full text has not been completely preserved. When Origen was around ...
Origen's On the First Principles was the first ever systematic exposition of Christian theology. [129] [43] He composed it as a young man between 220 and 230 while he was still living in Alexandria. [129] Fragments from Books 3.1 and 4.1–3 of Origen's Greek original are preserved in Origen's Philokalia. [129]
Chapter VII (of the first edition) addresses the evolution of instincts. His examples included two he had investigated experimentally: slave-making ants and the construction of hexagonal cells by honey bees. Darwin noted that some species of slave-making ants were more dependent on slaves than others, and he observed that many ant species will ...
Evolutionary thought, the recognition that species change over time and the perceived understanding of how such processes work, has roots in antiquity. With the beginnings of modern biological taxonomy in the late 17th century, two opposed ideas influenced Western biological thinking: essentialism, the belief that every species has essential characteristics that are unalterable, a concept ...
Origenism refers to a set of beliefs attributed to the Christian theologian Origen. [1] The main principles of Origenism include allegorical interpretation of scripture, pre-existence, and subordinationism. [2] Origen's thought was influenced by Philo the Jew, Platonism and Clement of Alexandria. [3] [4] [5] [1]
Meanwhile, in 397, Rufinus published a Latin translation of Origen's On First Principles. [1] [11] [2] [12] Rufinus was convinced that heretics had interpolated Origen's original treatise and that these interpolations were the source of the heterodox teachings found in it. [11]
First tree sloths and hippopotami, diversification of grazing herbivores like zebras and elephants, large carnivorous mammals like lions and the genus Canis, burrowing rodents, kangaroos, birds, and small carnivores, vultures increase in size, decrease in the number of perissodactyl mammals. Extinction of nimravid carnivores.
The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex is a book by English naturalist Charles Darwin, first published in 1871, which applies evolutionary theory to human evolution, and details his theory of sexual selection, a form of biological adaptation distinct from, yet interconnected with, natural selection.