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Dialectics of Nature, by Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels was a German Social science and Philosophy, who developed Communism alongside his better-known collaborator, Karl Marx, co-authoring The Communist Manifesto ....
 (1883), is an unfinished work
Unfinished work

An unfinished work is a creative work that has not been finished. Its creator might have chosen never to finish it, or have been prevented by circumstances outside of his or her control ....
 which applies Marxist ideas to science.

Dialectics and its study was derived from Hegel who had studied the Greek philosopher Heraclitus
Heraclitus

Heraclitus of Ephesus was a Pre-Socratic philosophy Greeks philosopher, a native of Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor.Heraclitus is known for his doctrine of change being central to the universe, and that the Logos is the fundamental order of all....
. Heraclitus taught that everything was constantly changing and that all things consisted of two opposite elements which changed into each other as night changes into day, light into darkness, life into death etc.

Engels's work follows on from what Engels had said about science in Anti-Dühring
Anti-Dühring

Herrn Eugen D?hrings Umw?lzung der Wissenschaft, commonly known as Anti-D?hring, is a book written in German by Friedrich Engels, published in 1878....
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Dialectics of Nature, by Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels

Friedrich Engels was a German Social science and Philosophy, who developed Communism alongside his better-known collaborator, Karl Marx, co-authoring The Communist Manifesto ....
 (1883), is an unfinished work
Unfinished work

An unfinished work is a creative work that has not been finished. Its creator might have chosen never to finish it, or have been prevented by circumstances outside of his or her control ....
 which applies Marxist ideas to science.

Dialectics and its study was derived from Hegel who had studied the Greek philosopher Heraclitus
Heraclitus

Heraclitus of Ephesus was a Pre-Socratic philosophy Greeks philosopher, a native of Ephesus, Ionia, on the coast of Asia Minor.Heraclitus is known for his doctrine of change being central to the universe, and that the Logos is the fundamental order of all....
. Heraclitus taught that everything was constantly changing and that all things consisted of two opposite elements which changed into each other as night changes into day, light into darkness, life into death etc.

Engels's work follows on from what Engels had said about science in Anti-Dühring
Anti-Dühring

Herrn Eugen D?hrings Umw?lzung der Wissenschaft, commonly known as Anti-D?hring, is a book written in German by Friedrich Engels, published in 1878....
. It includes the famous The Part Played by Labour in the Transition from Ape to Man, which has also been published separately as a pamphlet. Engels argues that the hand and brain grew together - an idea supported by later fossil discoveries, though it seems the foot came first. (See Australopithecus afarensis: Bipedalism
Australopithecus afarensis

'Australopithecus afarensis' is an extinct hominid which lived between 3.9 and 2.9 million years ago. In common with the younger Australopithecus africanus, A....
.)

Most of the work is fragmentary, but it has points of interest. In biology, he says:

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