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"Timely and cogent in its aims and arguments, it should prompt debate and discussion leading to fresh critical and historiographical insights concerning all those topics that historians of science, of society, and of culture associate with `Darwinism' and `evolutionism.'" — British Journal of the History of Science.
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Bowler finds no fault with Darwin's theory, only with the mistaken notion of its revolutionary effect on nineteenth-century thought. Examining the work of such figures as Owen, Spencer, Kelvin, Huxley, Haeckel, and Freud, Bowler finds a near-universal tendency to accept evolutionism while rejecting Darwin's central premise: natural selection. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
September 1, 1988
Publisher
John Hopkins U.P., 1988.
Pages
256
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780801836787