Description |
318 pages |
Contents |
History, science, and counterfactuals -- Darwin's originality -- Supernaturalism runs out of steam -- The emergence of evolutionism -- A world with a purpose -- Whence natural selection? -- Evolution and religion : a conflict avoided? -- Social evolutionism |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Subject |
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
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Evolution (Biology) -- History.
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Imaginary histories.
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LC no. |
2012033769 |
ISBN |
9780226068671 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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0226068676 (cloth : alkaline paper) |
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9780226009841 (e-book) |
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022600984X (e-book) |
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