Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World without Darwin
Peter J. Bowler (Author)
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The ideas and terminology of Darwinism are so pervasive these days that it seems impossible to avoid them, let alone imagine a world without them. But in this remarkable rethinking of scientific history, Peter J. Bowler does just that. He asks: What if Charles Darwin had not returned from the voyage of the Beagle and thus did not write On the Origin of Species? Would someone else, such as Alfred Russel Wallace, have published the selection theory and initiated a similar transformation? Or would the absence of Darwin’s book have led to a different sequence of events, in which biology developed along a track that did not precipitate a great debate about the impact of evolutionism? Would there have been anything equivalent to social Darwinism, and if so would the alternatives have been less pernicious and misappropriated?
- Rank: #48006 in Books
- Published on: 2013-03-22
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 1.35 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 328 pages
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