Rereading Darwin’s Origin of Species : The Hesitations of an Evolutionist Paperback / softback
by Richard G. Delisle, James Tierney
Part of the Explorations in Science and Literature series
Paperback / softback
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Widely seen as evolution’s founding figure, Charles Darwin is taken by many evolutionists to be the first to propose a truly modern theory of evolution.
Darwin’s greatness, however, has obscured the man and his work, at times even to the point of distortion. Accessibly written, this book presents a more nuanced picture and invites us to discover some neglected ambiguities and contradictions in Darwin’s masterwork.
Delisle and Tierney show Darwin to be a man who struggled to reconcile the received wisdom of an unchanging natural world with his new ideas about evolution.
Arguing that Darwin was unable to break free entirely from his contemporaries’ more traditional outlook, they show his theory to be a fascinating compromise between old and new. Rediscovering this other Darwin – and this other side of On the Origin of Species – helps shed new light on the immensity of the task that lay before 19th century scholars, as well as their ultimate achievements.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages, 13 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:24/08/2023
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- ISBN:9781350259768
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:176 pages, 13 bw illus
- Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication Date:24/08/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781350259768
