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Charles Darwin The Man and His Influence

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ISBN-10: 0521566681

ISBN-13: 9780521566681

Edition: 1996

Authors: Peter J. Bowler, Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, David Knight, David Knight

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Darwins enormous influence on science and culture, begun during his lifetime, is still very evident today. The Origin of Species excited much debate and controversy, challenging the foundations of Christianity, yet underpinning the Victorian concept of progress, and today still evokes powerful and contradictory responses. Yet he was not first to publish evolutionary ideas and his theory of natural selection was not accepted by many of his contemporaries. Peter Bowlers study of Darwins life and influence combines biography and cultural history. He shows how Darwins contemporaries were unable to appreciate precisely those aspects of his thinking that are considered scientifically important…    
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Book details

List price: $44.99
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/11/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Peter J. Bowleris Reader in the History of Science at Queen's University, Belfast, and is well known on both sides of the Atlantic for his books on the history of evolutionism.

David Knight is a writer. He lives in Colorado.

General editor's preface
Preface
The problem of interpretation
Evolution before The Origin of Species
The young Darwin
The voyage of the Beagle
The crucial years, London 1837-1842
The years of development
Going public
The emergence of Darwinism
The opponents of Darwinism
Human origins
Darwin and the modern world
Notes
Bibliography
Index