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Charles Darwin: The Man and His Influence

Charles Darwin: The Man and His Influence

Bowler, Peter J.
Gregory Kohlstedt, Sally
Knight, David M.

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Science Biographies

Biographies GeneralSports General

ISBN10: 0521562228
ISBN13: 9780521562225
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 11 1996
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.33
Height: 0.87 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Upon publication, Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species excited much debate and controversy, challenging the foundations of Christianity, nonetheless underpinning the Victorian concept of progress. It still evokes powerful and contradictory responses today. Peter Bowler's study of Darwin's life, first published in 1990, combines biography and cultural history. Emphasizing in particular the impact of Darwin's work, he shows how Darwin's contemporaries were unable to appreciate precisely those aspects of his thinking that are considered scientifically important today. He also demonstrates that 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.

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