The Coming of Evolution (Classic Reprint): The Story of a Great Revolution in Science - Couverture souple
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How evolution found its name and its cause—and why the idea unsettled a science world. A clear, engaging history that follows the key minds behind the shift from fixed types to changing life, from Lamarck to Darwin and Lyell.
The book traces the rise of evolutionary thought, showing how early thinkers argued about change, influence, and evidence. It explores the tension between rival theories and the way Darwin and Wallace helped place natural selection at the heart of evolution, all set against the backdrop of geology and the emerging modern science of life.
Readers will see how public reception shifted, from daring ideas to heated debate, and how major works and biographical threads intertwine to illuminate a pivotal scientific revolution.
- How Lamarck, Lyell, and others influenced debates about change in nature
- The development of the theory of natural selection and its key moments
- The reception of the Vestiges of Creation and its impact on science
- Connections between geology, biology, and the birth of evolutionary thinking
Ideal for readers of science history and anyone curious about how Darwinian ideas transformed natural history.
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When the history of the Nineteenth Century--'the Wonderful Century,' as it has, not inaptly, been called--comes to be written, a foremost place must be assigned to that great movement by which evolution has become the dominant factor in scientific progress, while its influence has been felt in every sphere of human speculation and effort. At the beginning of the Century, the few who ventured to entertain evolutionary ideas were regarded by their scientific contemporaries, as wild visionaries or harmless 'cranks'--by the world at large, as ignorant 'quacks' or 'designing atheists.'
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