Charles Darwin

The Man and his Influence

By:

Peter J. Bowler

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Hardback

Series:

Cambridge Science Biographies

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Darwin's enormous influence on science and culture, begun during his lifetime, is still very evident today. The Origin of Species excited much debate and controversy, challenging the foundations of Christianity, yet underpinning the Victorian concept of progress, and today still evokes powerful and contradictory responses. Yet he was not first to publish evolutionary ideas and his theory of natural selection was not accepted by many of his contemporaries. Peter Bowler's study of Darwin's life and influence combines biography and cultural history. He shows how Darwin's contemporaries were unable to appreciate precisely those aspects of his thinking that are considered scientifically important today. Darwin was a product of his time, but he also transcended it, by creating an idea capable of being exploited by twentieth-century scientists and intellectuals who had very different values from his own.

Release date NZ

April 11th, 1996

Author

Peter J. Bowler

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Contributor

Preface by David Knight

Illustrations

2 Maps; 13 Halftones, unspecified; 1 Line drawings, unspecified

Pages

264

Series

Cambridge Science Biographies

Dimensions

159x235x22

ISBN-13

9780521562225

Product ID

2364680

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