Table of Contents

List of Figures
Preface
Chapter 1. The Myth of the Darwinan Revolution
Chapter 2. Darwin's Originality
Chapter 3. The Impact of the Origin
Chapter 4. Evolutionism Triumphant
Chapter 5. From Darwin to Modern Darwinism
Chapter 6. Human Evolution
Chapter 7. Social Darwinism
Chapter 8. A Cultural Revolution?
Chapter 9. Toward a New Historiography of Evolutionism
Refences
Index

About the Author

Peter J. Bowler is reader in the history of philosophy of sceince at the Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland. His other books include The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades around 1900, The Mendelian Revolution, and Theories of Human Evolution.

Reviews

Timely and cogent in its aims and arguments, it should prompt debate and discussion leading to fresh critical and historiographical insights concerning all those topics that historians of science, of society, and of culture associate with 'Darwinism' and 'evolutionism.'. British Journal of the History of Science