| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 335 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
monochrome |
|
black and white |
|
illustration |
| Series |
Science and culture in the nineteenth century
|
|
Science and culture in the nineteenth century.
|
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-317) and index. |
| Contents |
Part 1 : Origin stories -- Imagining the Darwinian revolution in the nineteenth century / Ian Hesketh -- The "greatest living philosopher" and the useful biologist : how Spencer and Darwin viewed each other's contributions to evolutionary theory / Bernard Lightman -- The Darwinism of the X Club / Ruth Barton -- "A monkey into a man" : Thomas Henry Huxley, Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, and the making of an evolutionary icon / Gowan Dawson -- Part 2 : the politics of Darwinism -- The politics of the Darwinian revolution / Piers J. Hale -- "This great principle of the continuity of phenomena" : Edward Aveling on the evolutionism of Darwin and Marx / Joel Barnes -- Darwinism and historiography : what is excluded? / Sarah A. Qidwai -- Darwinism and Neo-Darwinism in recent colloquial science / Jamie Freestone -- Evolution's imagined pasts -- Darwin of the mind : Freud's Darwinian image / Henry-James Meiring -- R.A. Fisher and the scientific past : from the history of the Darwinian revolution to a Darwinian revolution in history / Alex Aylward -- Indirect descent : Darwin's legacy in twentieth-century paleoanthropology / Emily Kern. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Evolution (Biology) -- History -- 19th century.
|
|
Evolution (Biology) -- History -- 20th century.
|
|
Evolution (Biology) -- History -- 21st century.
|
|
SCIENCE / General |
|
Evolution (Biology) |
| Chronological Term |
1800-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
History.
|
| Added Author |
Hesketh, Ian, 1975- editor.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Imagining the Darwinian revolution. Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2022] 9780822947080 (OCoLC)1252961233 |
| ISBN |
9780822988724 (electronic book) |
|
0822988720 (electronic book) |
|
9780822947080 (print) |
|
0822947080 (print) |
|
