Darwin deleted
Subtitle: imagining a world without Darwin
By: Peter J. Bowler
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780226068671
Subjects: Imaginary histories; Evolution (Biology); History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 281-312) and index.
Table of contents: title: History, science, and counterfactuals; title: Darwin's originality; title: Supernaturalism runs out of steam; title: The emergence of evolutionism; title: A world with a purpose; title: Whence natural selection?; title: Evolution and religion : a conflict avoided?; title: Social evolutionism.