Evolution

Peter J. Bowler is Reader in the History of Science at Queen's University, Belfast, and is well known on both sides of the Atlantic for his books on the history of evolutionism.

• List of IllustrationsPreface to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary EditionPreface to the First Edition1. THE IDEA OF EVOLUTION: ITS SCOPE AND IMPLICATIONSThe Old Worldview and the NewThe Possibilities of ChangeThe Nature of ScienceThe Historian's Problems2. THE PRE-EVOLUTIONARY WORLDVIEWHuman HistoryTheories of the EarthThe Meaning of FossilsNatural TheologyThe New Natural HistoryThe Problem of Generation3. EVOLUTION IN THE ENLIGHTENMENTHuman NatureThe Origin of SocietyThe History of the EarthThe Chain of BeingThe New ClassificationThe New Theories of GenerationThe MaterialistsThe First Transmutationists4· NATURE AND SOCIETY, 1800-1859The Invention of ProgressThe Framrwork of ScienceGeorges Cuvier: Fossils and the History of LifeCatastrophism and Natural Theology in BritainThe Philosophical NaturalistsRadical ScienceThe Principle of UniformityThe Vestiges of Creation5· THE DEVELOPMENT OF DARWIN'S THEORYDarwin's Early CareerThe Crucial Years: 1836-1839Development of the Theory, 1840-1859Wallace and Publication of the Theory6. TiHE RECEPTION OF DARWIN'S THEORYThe Foundations of DarwinismThe Scientific DebateDarwinism and DesignHuman OriginsEvolution and Progress7· THE ECLIPSE Of DARWINISM:SCIENTIFIC EVOLUTIONISM, 1875-1925Reconstructing the History of LifeThe Age of the EarthNeo-LamarckismOrthogenesisNeo-DarwinismMendelism and the Mutation Theory8. EVOLUTION, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE, 1875-1925The Missing LinkThe Origins of Culture and SocietyEvolution and RaceSocial EcJOlutionismBiological DeterminismNeo-Lamarckism and SocietyEvolution and PhilosophyEvolution and Religion9· THE EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESISPopulation GeneticsThe Modern SynthesisThe Origin of LifeWider Implications of the Synthesis1O. MODERN DEBATES AND DEVELOPMENTSThe History of LifeHuman OriginsSociobiology and Ultra-DarwinismOpponents of Ultra- DarwinismAnti-DarwiniansDarwinism not Scientific?CreationismBibliographyIndex

"An up-to-date yet accessible introduction for the non-expert on the intellectual history of evolution and evolutionism."