This book describes the development of evolutionary theory from Darwin to the present; it is a historical narrative of the conceptual and theoretical discoveries and debates, the experimentation and field work that became the evidential base on which the theory rests, the systematic assembling of these into an elegant and powerful science and the elements that increasingly won over the biological and the scientific community more generally.

Author Biography

R. Paul Thompson is Professor at the Institute of the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, and the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Agro-Technology: A Philosophical Introduction (2011) and Evolutionary Biology: Conceptual, Ethical and Religious Issues (with Denis Walsh, 2014).