Peter J. Bowler

Peter J. Bowler (kelahiran 8 Oktober 1944) adalah seorang sejarawan biologi yang secara ekstensif menulis tentang sejarah pemikiran evolusi, sejarah ilmu pengetahuan lingkungan hidup, dan sejarah genetik. Buku 1984 buatannya, Evolution: The History of an Idea adalah sebuah buku teks standar tentang sejarah evolusi, dan kemudian direvisi pada 2003 dan edisi peringatan ke-15nya datang pada 2009.

Kehidupan 

Bowler mengkritik kreasionisme di Irlandia Utara. Ia membuat penampilan di radio lokal, termasuk wawancara dengan William Crawley pada acara Radio Ulster BBC TalkBack dan Sunday Sequence - dimana ia memperjuangkan evolusi dan menyoroti alam non-saintifik kreasionisme.

Publikasi 

 Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World Without Darwin (University of Chicago Press, 2013). ISBN 0-226-06867-6
 Q&A Darwin: Off the Record (with foreword by Richard Dawkins) (Duncan Baird, 2010).
 Science for All: The Popularization of Science in Early Twentieth-Century Britain (Chicago, 2009).
 Evolution: the history of an idea (4th ed., California, 2009, ISBN 0-520-26128-3).
 'Darwin's Originality', in Science (9 January 2009: Vol. 323. no. 5911, pp. 223 – 226)  
 Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons Evolution and Christianity form Darwin to Intelligent Design (Harvard University Press, 2007)
 'Experts and publishers: writing popular science in early twentieth-century Britain' in British Journal for the History of Science, xxxix (2006).
 (With I.R. Morus) Making modern science: a historical survey (Chicago, 2005).
 'The spectre of Darwinism: popular images of Darwinism in early twentieth-century Britain' in A. Lustig, R.J. Richards and M. Rose (eds), Darwinian Heresies (Cambridge, 2004).
 Reconciling science and religion: the debate in early twentieth-century Britain (Chicago, 2001).
 Life’s splendid drama: evolutionary biology and the reconstruction of life’s ancestry, 1860–1940 (Chicago, 1996).
 Charles Darwin: the man and his influence (Cambridge, 1996).
 Biology and Social Thought: 1850-1914: Five Lectures Delivered at the International Summer School in History of Science Uppsala, July 1990 (Univ of California, 1993)
 The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades Around 1900 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983)
 The Non-Darwinian Revolution: Reinterpreting a Historical Myth (Johns Hopkins University Press, New Edition, 1988)
 The Fontana History of the Environmental Sciences (Fontana Press, 1992)
 The Mendelian Revolution: The Emergence of Hereditarian Concepts in Modern Science and Society  (Continuum International, Athlone, 1989)
 The Invention of Progress: Victorians and the Past  (Wiley-Blackwell, 1989)
 Theories of Human Evolution: A Century of Debate, 1844-1944 (Wiley-Blackwell 1987)
 Fossils and Progress: Palaeontology and the Idea of Progressive Evolution in the Nineteenth Century (1976) ISBN 0-88202-043-9

Referensi

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Kelahiran 1944