Darwin deleted : imagining a world without Darwin / Peter J. Bowler.
Material type: TextDescription: ix, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780226068671 (cloth)
- 0226068676 (cloth)
- 576.8/2 23
- QH361 .B675 2013
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E-Book | Reformational Study Centre General library | 576.82 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available |
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.