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

Author/creator Bowler, Peter J. author.
Format Book
PublicationChicago : University of Chicago Press, 2013.
Copyright Date©2013
Description318 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects

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.
Abstract 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 281-312) and index.
LCCN 2012033769
ISBN9780226068671 (cloth : alkaline paper)
ISBN0226068676 (cloth : alkaline paper)
Standard identifier# 40022115025

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks QH361 .B675 2013 ✔ Available Place Hold