Charles Darwin : The Man and his Influence

Name: Charles Darwin
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521566681
Price: 4800 KES
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ISBN: 9780521566681

by Peter J. Bowler

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Cambridge Science Biographies

ISBN-10 0521566681

ISBN-13 9780521566681

Publisher Cambridge University Press

Imprint Cambridge University Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Apr 11th, 1996

Print length 264 Pages

Weight 436 grams

Dimensions 22.80 x 15.40 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: Biography: historical, political & military Biography: historical, political and military Evolution Evolution / Evolutionary biology

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An almost mythical figure in the development of science, Darwin's theory of natural selection was not initially accepted by many of his contemporaries. This study combines biography and cultural history, charting Darwin's considerable influence from his time to ours.

Darwin's enormous influence on science and culture, begun during his lifetime, is still very evident today. The Origin of Species excited much debate and controversy, challenging the foundations of Christianity, yet underpinning the Victorian concept of progress, and today still evokes powerful and contradictory responses. Yet he was not first to publish evolutionary ideas and his theory of natural selection was not accepted by many of his contemporaries. Peter Bowler's study of Darwin's life and influence combines biography and cultural history. He shows how Darwin's contemporaries were unable to appreciate precisely those aspects of his thinking that are considered scientifically important today. Darwin was a product of his time, but he also transcended it, by creating an idea capable of being exploited by twentieth-century scientists and intellectuals who had very different values from his own.

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