Evolution And The Victorians
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Evolution And The Victorians
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Author : Jonathan Conlin
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2014-01-16
Evolution And The Victorians written by Jonathan Conlin and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-16 with History categories.
Charles Darwin's discovery of evolution by natural selection was the greatest scientific discovery of all time. The publication of his 1859 book, On the Origin of Species, is normally taken as the point at which evolution erupted as an idea, radically altering how the Victorians saw themselves and others. This book tells a very different story. Darwin's discovery was part of a long process of negotiation between imagination, faith and knowledge which began long before 1859 and which continues to this day. Evolution and the Victorians provides historians with a survey of the thinkers and debates implicated in this process, from the late 18th century to the First World War. It sets the history of science in its social and cultural context. Incorporating text-boxes, illustrations and a glossary of specialist terms, it provides students with the background narrative and core concepts necessary to engage with specialist historians such as Adrian Desmond, Bernard Lightman and James Secord. Conlin skilfully synthesises material from a range of sources to show the ways in which the discovery of evolution was a collaborative enterprise pursued in all areas of Victorian society, including many that do not at first appear "scientific".
Evolution And Victorian Culture
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Author : Bernard V. Lightman
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-05-29
Evolution And Victorian Culture written by Bernard V. Lightman and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-29 with Art categories.
These essays examine the dynamic interplay between evolution and Victorian culture, mapping new relationships between the arts and sciences.
Apes Angels And Victorians
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Author : William Irvine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
Apes Angels And Victorians written by William Irvine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Evolution (Biology) categories.
Apes Angels And Victorians
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Author : William Irvine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
Apes Angels And Victorians written by William Irvine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Evolution (Biology) categories.
Evolution And Society
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Author : J. W. Burrow
language : en
Publisher: CUP Archive
Release Date : 1966
Evolution And Society written by J. W. Burrow and has been published by CUP Archive this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Political Science categories.
An investigation of the reasons why Victorian pioneers of social science were habitually approaching the study of other societies with largely positivistic and evolutionary methodologies.
Human Evolution And Fantastic Victorian Fiction
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Author : Anna Neill
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-06-24
Human Evolution And Fantastic Victorian Fiction written by Anna Neill and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-24 with Literary Criticism categories.
Following the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, Victorian anthropology made two apparently contradictory claims: it distinguished "civilized man" from animals and "primitive" humans and it linked them though descent. Paradoxically, it was by placing human history in a deep past shaped by minute, incremental changes (rather than at the apex of Providential order) that evolutionary anthropology could assert a new form of human exceptionalism and define civilized humanity against both human and nonhuman savagery. This book shows how fantastic Victorian and early Edwardian fictions—utopias, dystopias, nonsense literature, gothic horror, and children’s fables—untether human and nonhuman animal agency from this increasingly orthodox account of the deep past. As they imagine worlds that lift the evolutionary constraints on development and as they collapse evolution into lived time, these stories reveal (and even occupy) dynamic landscapes of cognitive descent that contest prevailing anthropological ideas about race, culture, and species difference.
Apes Angels And Victorians
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Author : William Irvine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1956
Apes Angels And Victorians written by William Irvine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1956 with Biologists categories.
Apes Angels And Victorians
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Author : William Irvine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1959
Apes Angels And Victorians written by William Irvine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1959 with Evolution categories.
An Elusive Victorian
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Author : Martin Fichman
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2010-11-15
An Elusive Victorian written by Martin Fichman and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-15 with Science categories.
Codiscoverer of the theory of evolution by natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace should be recognized as one of the titans of Victorian science. Instead he has long been relegated to a secondary place behind Darwin. Worse, many scholars have overlooked or even mocked his significant contributions to other aspects of Victorian culture. With An Elusive Victorian, Martin Fichman provides the first comprehensive analytical study of Wallace's life and controversial intellectual career. Fichman examines not only Wallace's scientific work as an evolutionary theorist and field naturalist but also his philosophical concerns, his involvement with theism, and his commitment to land nationalization and other sociopolitical reforms such as women's rights. As Fichman shows, Wallace worked throughout his life to integrate these humanistic and scientific interests. His goal: the development of an evolutionary cosmology, a unified vision of humanity's place in nature and society that he hoped would ensure the dignity of all individuals. To reveal the many aspects of this compelling figure, Fichman not only reexamines Wallace's published works, but also probes the contents of his lesser known writings, unpublished correspondence, and copious annotations in books from his personal library. Rather than consider Wallace's science as distinct from his sociopolitical commitments, An Elusive Victorian assumes a mutually beneficial relationship between the two, one which shaped Wallace into one of the most memorable characters of his time. Fully situating Wallace's wide-ranging work in its historical and cultural context, Fichman's innovative and insightful account will interest historians of science, religion, and Victorian culture as well as biologists.
Origin Of Species Revisited
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Author : Donald Forsdyke
language : en
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release Date : 2001
Origin Of Species Revisited written by Donald Forsdyke and has been published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Literary Criticism categories.
Major inconsistencies in Darwin's theory of the origin of species by natural selection remained unresolved for over a century until the results of recent research in various genome projects led to the theory's reinterpretation. Reviewing this new information, Donald Forsdyke, a laboratory scientist involved in genome research, wondered whether similar discoveries could have been made a century earlier, by one of Darwin's contemporaries. The Origin of Species Revisited describes his investigation into the history of evolutionary biology and its startling conclusion. The trail led first to Joseph Hooker and Thomas Huxley, who had been both the theory's strongest supporters and its most penetrating critics, and eventually to the Victorian George Romanes and Darwin's young research associate William Bateson. Although these men were well-known, their resolution of the origin of species paradox has either been ignored (Romanes), or ignored and reviled (Bateson). Four years after Darwin's death, Romanes published a theory of the origin of species by means of "physiological selection" that resolved the inconsistencies in Darwin's theory and introduced the idea of a "peculiarity" of the reproductive system that allowed selective fertility between "physiological complements." Forsdyke argues that the chemical basis of the origin of species by physiological selection is actually the species-dependent component of the base composition of DNA, showing that Romanes thus anticipated modern biochemistry. Using this new perspective Forsdyke considers some of the outstanding problems in biology and medicine, including the question of how "self" is distinguished from "not-self" by members of different species. Finally he examines the political and ideological forces that led to Romanes' contribution to evolutionary biology remaining unappreciated until now.