Darwin deleted: imagining a world without Darwin

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"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."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

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

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."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:cop. 2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Chicago Press
Place of Publication:Chicago
Language:eng
Publication Date:cop. 2013.

Notes

Bibliogr. p. 281-312.

The Physical Object

Description:1 vol. (318 p.) : : ill. ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780226068671, 0226068676
oclc:ocn859437536
LC Classification:QH361B682013
Dewey Decimal:576.501

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.

Subjects

Darwin, Charles Darwinisme -- Histoire Évolution (Biologie) Évolution (biologie) -- Histoire Evolution (Biology) Evolution (Biology) -- History Histoire-fiction History Imaginary histories Uchronies