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

  • Bowler, Peter J.
Date:
2013
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Description

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.

Publication/Creation

Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Physical description

318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-312) and index.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    AOS /BOW
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ISBN

  • 9780226068671
  • 0226068676