Disseminating Darwinism : The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender
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If history runs in cycles, nowhere is the phenomenon better displayed than in the perennial renewal of tensions between creationists and evolutionists. These adversaries (warring over school curricula in Kansas at present) would do well to read Ronald Numbers and John Stenhouse's "Disseminating Darwinism."This collection of essays by a variety of academics and edited by Number and Stenhouse, discusses the how religion, gender, and geography affected different communities' reception of evolution. Both sides in the current evolution debate will recognize the battles these essays describe. While one side missteps by supporting personalities-thereby losing influence for political reasons rather than for the merits of their views, the other blindly defends its turf-often universities-against the encroachment of outside forces. Those who find a third way, like theologians who devised a form of theistic evolutionism, wind up being the most popular and instrumental. Anyone, academic or otherwise, who is fascinated with the history of antagonism over this scientific revolution will find "Disseminating Darwin" instructive and compelling.
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'Anyone, academic or otherwise, who is fascinated with the history of antagonism over this scientific revolution will find Disseminating Darwinism instructive and compelling.' Beliefnet
'When it would seem impossible to introduce new factors into our understanding of Darwinism, these essays do just that. In remarkably lively and unexpected ways, they demonstrate the varying responses to Darwin's thought arising from diverse geographic, ethnic, and religious communities. They provide new paths to understanding Darwinism as the debate over those ideas enters the new century.' Frank M. Turner, Yale University
'In an era of historical scholarship increasingly sensitive to regional and group differences, the ten essays in this volume introduce readers to a rich variety of late-nineteenth-century responses to Darwinism - and the scientific and social meaning of Darwinism was a chief intellectual issue of that era. Through these essays, students and scholars alike will gain new insight into a lively intellectual debate that continues today.' Edward J. Larson, University of Georgia
Disseminating Darwinism : The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender
Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender,Ronald L. Numbers,John Stenhouse,Cambridge University Press,0521011051,Anthropology - Physical,Cosmology,History,Human Evolution,Human Geography,Life Sciences - Evolution,Philosophy & Social Aspects,Science,Science/Mathematics,20th century,Evolution,History of science,Religion & Beliefs,Science / History,Social Darwinism--History,World history: c 1750 to c 1900,World history: from c 1900 -,c 1800 to c 1900
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