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Author Bowler, Peter J., author

Title Darwin deleted : imagining a world without Darwin / Peter J. Bowler
Published Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2013
©2013

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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.
Evolution (Biology) -- History.
Imaginary histories.
LC no. 2012033769
ISBN 9780226068671 (cloth : alkaline paper)
0226068676 (cloth : alkaline paper)
9780226009841 (e-book)
022600984X (e-book)