Political Descent
Subtitle: Malthus, Mutualism, and the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: Aug 05, 2014
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9780226108490
Description: Historians of science have long noted the influence of the nineteenth-century political economist Thomas Robert Malthus on Charles Darwin. In a bold move, Piers J. Hale contends that this focus on Malthus and his effect on Darwin's evolutionary thought neglects a strong anti-Malthusian tradition in English intellectual life, one that not only predated the 1859 publication of the 'Origin of Species' but also persisted throughout the Victorian period until World War I.
Notes: Source title: Political Descent: Malthus, Mutualism, and the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England