Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender

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Book

Authors

Ronald L. Numbers

ISBN 10

0521011051

ISBN 13

9780521011051

Tags

history, Cosmology, Biology, Evolution, History & Philosophy, History of Technology, Medical History & Records, Human Geography, Physical, Biology & Life Sciences, Anthropology

Description

This innovative collection of original essays focuses on the ways in which geography, gender, race, and religion influenced the reception of Darwinism in the English-speaking world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The contributions to this volume collectively illustrate the importance of local social, physical, and religious arrangements, while revealing that neither distance from Darwin's home at Down nor size of community greatly influenced how various regions responded to Darwinism. Essays spanning the world from Great Britain and North America to Australia and New Zealand explore the various meanings for Darwinism in these widely separated locales, while other chapters focus on the difference it made in the debates over evolution. - from Amzon

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