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Darwin deleted : imagining a world without Darwin / Peter J. Bowler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowler, Peter J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
- Darwin, Charles.
- Evolution (Biology)--History.
- Evolution (Biology).
- History.
- Imaginary histories.
- Physical Description:
- 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
- Summary:
- A history of science text imagining how evolutionary theory and biology would have been understood if Darwin had never published his "Origin of Species" and other works.--publisher summary.
- Contents:
- History, science, and counterfactuals
- Darwin's originality
- Supernaturalism runs out of steam
- The emergence of evolutionism
- A world with a purpose
- Whence natural selection?
- Evolution and religion : a conflict avoided?
- Social evolutionism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-312) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226068671
- 0226068676
- OCLC:
- 808010092
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