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Evolution : the history of an idea / Peter J. Bowler.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowler, Peter J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Evolution (Biology)--History.
- Evolution (Biology).
- History.
- Genre:
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (Adams copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxvii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 464 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Twenty-fifth anniversary edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, Calif. ; London : University of California Press, ©2009.
- Summary:
- "Since its original publication in 1989, 'Evolution: The History of an Idea' has been recognized as a comprehensive and authoritative source on the development and impact of this most controversial of scientific theories. This 25th anniversary edition is updated with a new preface examining recent scholarship and trends within the study of evolution."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 1. The idea of evolution: its scope and implications
- The old worldview and the new
- The possibilities of change
- The nature of science
- The historian's problems
- 2. The pre-evolutionary worldview
- Human history
- Theories of the Earth
- The meaning of fossils
- Natural theology
- The new natural history
- The problem of generation
- 3. Evolution in the enlightenment
- Human nature
- The origin of society
- The history of the Earth
- The chain of being
- The new classification
- The new theories of generation
- The materialists
- The first transmutationists
- 4. Nature and society, 1800-1859
- The invention of progress
- The framework of science
- Georges Cuvier: fossils and the history of life
- Catastrophism and natural theology in Britain
- The philosophical naturalists
- Radical science
- The principle of uniformity
- The vestiges of creation
- 5. The development of Darwin's theory
- Darwin's early career
- The crucial years: 1836-1839
- Development of the theory, 1840-1859
- Wallace and publication of the theory
- 6. The reception of Darwin's theory
- The foundations of Darwinism
- The scientific debate
- Darwinism and design
- Human origins
- Evolution and progress
- 7. The eclipse of Darwinism: scientific evolutionism, 1875-1925
- Reconstructing the history of life
- The age of the Earth
- Neo-Lamarckism
- Orthogenesis
- Neo-Darwinism
- Mendelism and the mutation theory
- 8. Evolution, society, and culture, 1875-1925
- The missing link
- The origins of culture and society
- Evolution and race
- Social evolutionism
- Biological determinism
- Neo-Lamarckism and society
- Evolution and philosophy
- Evolution and religion
- 9. The evolutionary synthesis
- Population genetics
- The modern synthesis
- The origin of life
- Wider implications of the synthesis
- 10. Modern debates and developments
- The history of life
- Sociobiology and ultra-Darwinism
- Opponents of ultra-Darwinism
- Anti- Darwinism
- Darwinism not scientific?
- Creationism.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-449) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780520261280
- 0520261283
- OCLC:
- 426118505
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