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Challenging as Science, Important as History,
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This review is from: Life's Splendid Drama: Evolutionary Biology and the Reconstruction of Life's Ancestry, 1860-1940 (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series) (Paperback)
Peter J. Bowler's Life's Splendid Drama looks at evolutionary biology and the reconstruction of life from 1860 - 1940, particulary emphasizing the earlier period. It demonstrates that Darwin's ideas were not immediately transcendent, as is often presented, but instead they competed with many other ideas concerning evolution swirling around for many decades following the Origin of the Species. This is a challenging book for the non-specialist but it does provide an important look at the history of science in a very well researched and detailed manner. It is a massive read and I often had to struggle with concepts that have grown cloudy since I took biology (and could very well have been cloudy then) but it is an invaluable look at the sometimes troubled birth of modern biological science.
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Life's Splendid Drama: Evolutionary Biology and the Reconstruction of Life's Ancestry, 1860-1940 (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations ... by Peter J. Bowler (Paperback - May 22, 1998)
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