Darwin deleted : imagining a world without Darwin /
Bowler, Peter J.,
Darwin deleted : imagining a world without Darwin / Peter J. Bowler. - ix, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-312) and index.
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.
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.
9780226068671 (cloth) 0226068676 (cloth)
2012033769
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Evolution (Biology)--History.
Imaginary histories.
QH361 / .B675 2013
576.8/2
Darwin deleted : imagining a world without Darwin / Peter J. Bowler. - ix, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-312) and index.
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.
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.
9780226068671 (cloth) 0226068676 (cloth)
2012033769
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
Evolution (Biology)--History.
Imaginary histories.
QH361 / .B675 2013
576.8/2