@Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt he wasn’t first with evolution. But he was the first with enough money to self-publish a book on it He came to Edinburgh University, dropped out of his course but saw the work that was being done there on evolution. Robert Chambers was the first to write on evolutionary theories, but he wrote anonymously and published in England so as not to offend the church https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robert_Chambers_(publisher,_born_1802)&wprov=rarw1