In this pioneering study of the first major challenges to Darwinism, Bowler examines the completing theories of evolution, identifies their intellectual origins, and describes the process by which the modern concept of evolution emerged.
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Establishes the context and the necessity for reconciliation between Darwinism and the other biological subdisciplines that occurred in the years following the 1920s.
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Behind the triumph of Darwin's theory,
By John C. Landon "nemonemini" (New York City) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades around 1900 (Paperback)
We tend to think of the monolithic triumph of Darwinism in the wake of the publication of _Origin_, but as Bowler shows the theory of Darwin was under assault by the end of the nineteenth century, before the rise of the neo-Darwinian synthesis. In fact, the acceptance of the fact of evolution--and the rapid conversion of most scientists--was not matched by a similar assent to natural selection. Further, the absence of a genetic argument and the treatment of inheritance in terms of blending was a major problem. By the time of the sixth edition Darwin's claims bordered on incoherence, as a strain of Lamarckianism reentered Darwin's thinking. This was only the beginning, and by the beginning of the twentieth century claims for theistic evolution, orthogenesis, Lamarckianism flourished even as the rediscovery of Mendel produced genetics and the mutation theory. It would be some time before the real triumph of Darwinism occurred, by the middle of the twentieth century, and yet one wonders if a similar cycle must greet the harderning of the paradigm that we now see.
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nonadaptive trends, evidence for orthogenesis, toad experiments, nonadaptive characters, nonadaptive variation, racial senility, nonadaptive evolution, orthogenetic evolution, germinal selection, theistic evolutionism, quired characters, mutation theory, physiological selection, germ plasm theory, embryological growth, laboratory biologists, ancestral heredity, discontinuous evolution, organic selection, directed variation, perfecting principle, recapitulation theory, memory analogy, somatic selection, theistic evolutionists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Samuel Butler, William Bateson, Herbert Spencer, Julian Huxley, Theodor Eimer, Arthur Koestler, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Stephen Gould, Bernard Shaw, Ernst Mayr, Lloyd Morgan, Paul Kammerer, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Asa Gray, August Weismann, Chambers's Vestiges, Peter Kropotkin, Ray Lankester, Ted Steele, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alpheus Packard, Arthur Thomson, Hugo De Vries, Karl Jordan, Lord Kelvin New!
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nonadaptive trends, evidence for orthogenesis, toad experiments, nonadaptive characters, nonadaptive variation, racial senility, nonadaptive evolution, orthogenetic evolution, germinal selection, theistic evolutionism, quired characters, mutation theory, physiological selection, germ plasm theory, embryological growth, laboratory biologists, ancestral heredity, discontinuous evolution, organic selection, directed variation, perfecting principle, recapitulation theory, memory analogy, somatic selection, theistic evolutionists Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Samuel Butler, William Bateson, Herbert Spencer, Julian Huxley, Theodor Eimer, Arthur Koestler, Henry Fairfield Osborn, Stephen Gould, Bernard Shaw, Ernst Mayr, Lloyd Morgan, Paul Kammerer, Thomas Hunt Morgan, Asa Gray, August Weismann, Chambers's Vestiges, Peter Kropotkin, Ray Lankester, Ted Steele, Alfred Russel Wallace, Alpheus Packard, Arthur Thomson, Hugo De Vries, Karl Jordan, Lord Kelvin New!
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- Unconscious Memory by Samuel Butler on 7 pages
- The Comparative Reception of Darwinism by Thomas F. Glick on 6 pages
- The Origins of Theoretical Population Genetics by William B. Provine on 6 pages
- Tropical Nature and Other Essays [DAR/ABC-2135] by Alfred R. Wallace on 4 pages
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- Modernist Impulses in the Human Sciences, 1870-1930 by Dorothy Ross on 4 pages
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- The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism by Ronald L. Numbers in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- History of Science in United States: An Encyclopedia (Garland Reference Library of Social Science) by Marc Rothenberg on page 200, page 393, and page 421
- History, Humanity and Evolution: Essays for John C. Greene by James Richard Moore on page 351, and page 352
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