| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 335 pages) : illustrations |
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illustration |
| Series |
Science and culture in the nineteenth century |
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Science and culture in the nineteenth century.
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| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-317) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 07, 2022) |
| Subject |
Evolution (Biology) -- History -- 19th century
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Evolution (Biology) -- History -- 20th century
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Evolution (Biology) -- History -- 21st century
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SCIENCE / General
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Evolution (Biology)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hesketh, Ian, 1975- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780822988724 |
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0822988720 |
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