D Ospovat - Journal of the History of Biology, 1979 - Springer
In the Origin of Species (1859) natural selection is presented as an autonomous biological process which is, potentially, in continuous operation. No organism is perfect. There is …
MA Largent - Transactions of the American philosophical society, 2009 - JSTOR
In discussing the emergence and development of evolutionary biology, historians of biology typically divide the nineteenth and twentieth centuries into four eras. The first, the pre …
S Herbert - Journal of the History of Biology, 2005 - Springer
The “Darwinian revolution” remains an acceptable phrase to describe the change in thought brought about by the theory of evolution, provided that the revolution is seen as occurring …
MT Ghiselin - Journal of the History of Biology, 2005 - Springer
Darwin proclaimed his own work revolutionary. His revolution, however, is still in progress, and the changes that are going on are reflected in the contemporary historical and …
DL Hull - Journal of the History of Biology, 2005 - Springer
The topic of this paper is external versus internal explanations, first, of the genesis of evolutionary theory and, second, its reception. Victorian England was highly competitive and …
This is a book of someone who hates Darwin and Darwinists. It is written by a historian of science. Dempster is not a creationist. In some older creationist books, creationists used to …
VB Smocovitis - Journal of the History of Biology, 2005 - Springer
This paper attempts a critical examination of scholarly understanding of the historical event referred to as “the Darwinian Revolution.” In particular, it concentrates on some of the major …
M Ruse - Journal of the History of Biology, 1975 - JSTOR
I want in this paper to give an analysis of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, or, as he would have called it, his. theory of descent with modification. This analysis will not be directly …
RJ Richards - Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 1983 - Wiley Online Library
Though Darwin had formulated his theory of evolution by natural selection by early fall of 1837, he did not publish it until 1859 in the Origin of Species. Darwin thus delayed publicly …