ISBN:
1441126139
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9781441126139
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (257 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Conlin, Jonathan Evolution and the Victorians
DDC:
306.5
Keywords:
Science Social aspects 19th century
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History
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HISTORY ; Europe ; Great Britain
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Science ; Social aspects
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History
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Great Britain
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Alfred Russel WallaceFurther reading; Chapter Four Reading The Origin; 'One long argument'; Darwin's bulldog; The Descent of Man; A Darwinian revolution?; Further reading; Part Two Lines of Descent, 1850-1914; Chapter Five Christian evolution? Charles Kingsley's 'natural theology of the future'; The apostle of the flesh; Reproduce, rinse, repeat; Dogmatic atheism versus agnosticism; Further reading; Chapter Six Imperial evolution? 'Greater Britons' and other races; Absence of mind?; Enlightenment and Emancipation; Ethnology or anthropology?; Escape or extinction?; Further reading.
Abstract:
Charles Darwin's discovery of evolution by natural selection was the greatest scientific discovery of all time. The publication of his 1859 book, On the Origin of Species, is normally taken as the point at which evolution erupted as an idea, radically altering how the Victorians saw themselves and others. This book tells a very different story. Darwin's discovery was part of a long process of negotiation between imagination, faith and knowledge which began long before 1859 and which continues to this day. Evolution and the Victorians provides historians with a survey of the thinkers and debat
Abstract:
Chapter Seven Progressive evolution? Herbert Spencer, social science and 'Social Darwinism'Springs of action: Childhood and youth; Statics and kinetics; The laws of development; Man Versus the State; Further reading; Chapter Eight Domestic evolution? Making a home for science; Reading and rambling; Treasuring and teaching; Further reading; Chapter Nine Sustainable evolution? Alfred Russel Wallace and the Wonderful Century; Spiritualist science; Land and labour; The view from Davos; Further reading; Conclusion: The Longest Discovery; Further readin; Glossary; Index.
Abstract:
Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of illustrations; Timeline; A note on currency; Introduction: 'I think'; Darwin's problem with species; Evolution after Darwin; Playing Huxley's game; Further reading; Part One The Longest Discovery, 1750-1870; Chapter One Natural theology; Revolutionary appetencies; Malthus and population; The invisible hand; Further reading; Chapter Two Comparative anatomy; Lamarck and Cuvier; Crossing the channel; The Owenite settlement; Further reading; Chapter Three Writing The Origin; The voyage of HMS Beagle; Mental rioting.
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