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The Darwinian Heritage
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Edited by:
David Kohn
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2014
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Representing the present rich state of historical work on Darwin and Darwinism, this volume of essays places the great theorist in the context of Victorian science. The book includes contributions by some of the most distinguished senior figures of Darwin scholarship and by leading younger scholars who have been transforming Darwinian studies. The result is the most comprehensive survey available of Darwin's impact on science and society.
Originally published in 1986.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
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"The anthology does more than incorporate scholarship of the past and is more than a comprehensive monument of present scholarship. It also programs future studies."---Charles S. Blinderman, Victorian Studies
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". . . a must for those interested in tracing the diverse origins of Darwin's thought and the role he played in the scientific community of his time."---Eric Delson, Recent Publications in Natural History
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"The Darwinian Heritage is truly a monumental achievement on the part of the contributors, the editors, and not least the publishers. The volume contains thirty-one papers written by an international community of scholars. . . . The work drives home the point time and again that Darwin was a controversial thinker and writer, who worked best against a constant foil of criticism, although his scientific conclusions were carefully supported by empirical evidence."---K. N. Chadhuri, Journal of Biogeography
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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CONTENTS
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CONTRIBUTORS
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Introduction: A High Regard for Darwin
1 - PART ONE. The Evolution of a Theorist
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Chapter 1. Going the Limit: Toward the Construction of Darwin's Theory (1832-1839)
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Chapter 2. The Wider British Context in Darwin's Theorizing
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Chapter 3. Darwin's Invertebrate Program, 1826-1836: Preconditions for Transformism
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Chapter 4. Darwin's Early Intellectual Development: An Overview of the Beagle Voyage (1831-1836)
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Chapter 5. Owen and Darwin Reading a Fossil: Macrauchenia in a Boney Light
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Chapter 6. The Immediate Origins of Natural Selection
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Chapter 7. Darwin as a Lifelong Generation Theorist
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Chapter 8. Darwin's Principle of Divergence as Internal Dialogue
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Chapter 9. Darwin's Intellectual Development (Commentary)
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Chapter 10. Speaking of Species: Darwin's Strategy
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Chapter 11. The Ascent of Nature in Darwin's Descent of Man
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Chapter 12. Darwin and the Expression of the Emotions
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Chapter 13. Darwin on Animal Behavior and Evolution
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Chapter 14. Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace: Two Decades of Debate over Natural Selection
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Chapter 15. Darwin of Down: The Evolutionist as Squarson- Naturalist
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Chapter 16. Darwin the Young Geologist
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Chapter 17. Darwin and the World of Geology (Commentary)
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Chapter 19. Darwin's Reading and the Fictions of Development
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Chapter 20. Three Notes on the Reception of Darwin's Ideas on Natural Selection (Henry Baker Tristram, Alfred Newton, Samuel Wilberforce)
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Chapter 21. Darwinism Is Social
609 - PART THREE. Towards The Comparative Reception of Darwinism
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Chapter 22. Scientific Attitudes to Darwinism in Britain and America
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Chapter 23. Darwinism in Germany, France and Italy
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Chapter 24. Darwin and Russian Evolutionary Biology
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Chapter 25. Darwin's Five Theories of Evolution
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Chapter 26: Darwinism as a Historical Entity: A Historiographic Proposal
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Chapter 27. Darwinism Today (Commentary)
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Chapter 28. Adaptation and Mechanisms of Evolution After Darwin: A Study in Persistent Controversies
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Chapter 29. Darwin on Natural Selection: A Philosophical Perspective
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Chapter 30. Images of Darwin: A Historiographic Overview
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Chapter 31. The Beagle Collector and His Collections
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Bibliography
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Index
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Keywords for this book
Charles Darwin; Darwinism; Lamarckism; The eclipse of Darwinism; Pangenesis; Intelligent design; The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection; Development of Darwin's theory; Erasmus Darwin; Objections to evolution; Mendelian inheritance; Evolution; Phrenology; Adaptation and Natural Selection; Orthogenesis; Social Darwinism; Hugo de Vries; Modern evolutionary synthesis; Evolution as fact and theory; Transmutation of species; Ernst Haeckel; Herbert Spencer; Natural selection; Disenchantment; Malthusianism; The Descent of Man; and Selection in Relation to Sex; The Philosopher; The Selfish Gene; Scriptural geologist; Asa Gray; Henry Baker Tristram; Creation science; Recapitulation theory; Superiority (short story); Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection; Pachydermata; Victoria Institute; August Weismann; The Structure of Science; J. B. S. Haldane; Richard Owen; Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation; William Paley; Catastrophism; Racism; Evolution of dominance; Inbreeding; Level of support for evolution; Negative capability; Neo-Darwinism; Cope's rule; Thomas Henry Huxley; The Theory of Evolution; Oscar Hertwig; Eugenics; Zoonomia; Man's Place in Nature; Quantum evolution; Contemporary society; On Human Nature; Rudolf Erich Raspe; William Bateson; Theistic evolution; Utilitarianism; Ad hoc hypothesis; C. Lloyd Morgan; Philosophy of biology; Emotion in animals; Speciation; E. O. Wilson
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
