Deconstructing Darwinism: The politics of evolution in the 1860s

J Moore - Journal of the History of Biology, 1991 - JSTOR
A term like Darwinism is bound to change in the course of time.,... and to try to turn the clock
back is not likely to be successful.... I am quite sure that everybody will continue to define …

Darwin after Malthus

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 …

The so-called eclipse of Darwinism

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 …

The Darwinian revolution revisited

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 …

The Darwinian revolution as viewed by a philosophical biologist

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 …

Deconstructing Darwin: evolutionary theory in context

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 …

[PDF][PDF] Evolutionary concepts in the nineteenth century: natural selection and Patrick Matthew

WJ Dempster - 1996 - wasdarwinwrong.com
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 …

“It Ain't Over 'til it's Over”: Rethinking the Darwinian Revolution

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 …

Charles Darwin's theory of evolution: an analysis

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 …

Why Darwin delayed, or interesting problems and models in the history of science

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 …