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Darwin deleted : imagining a world without Darwin / Peter J. Bowler.

By: Material type: TextTextDescription: ix, 318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780226068671 (cloth)
  • 0226068676 (cloth)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 576.8/2 23
LOC classification:
  • QH361 .B675 2013
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.
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.
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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.