Eclipse of Darwinism

Peter J. Bowler is reader in the history of philosophy of sceince at the Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland. His other books include The Non-Darwinian Revolution, The Mendelian Revolution, and Theories of Human Evolution.

• PrefacePreface to the Original EditionAckowledgmentsChapter 1. The Eclipse and Its ImplicationsChapter 2. The Defense of DarwinismChapter 3. The Decline of Theistic EvolutionismChapter 4. LamarckismChapter 5. Anti-Darwinism in FranceChapter 6. The American SchoolChapter 7. OrthogenesisChapter 8. The Mutation TheoryNotesBibliographyAuthor IndexSubject Index

Establishes the context and the necessity for reconciliation between Darwinism and the other biological subdisciplines that occurred in the years following the 1920s. American Scientist