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Rereading Darwin’s Origin of Species The Hesitations of an Evolutionist 1st Edition

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Richard G. Delisle, James Tierney

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1st Edition

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9781350259591, 9781350259768, 9781350259577

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Bloomsbury Academic

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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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Rereading Darwin’s Origin of Species The Hesitations of an Evolutionist 1st Edition

SKU: 9781350259584

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Full Title

Rereading Darwin’s Origin of Species The Hesitations of an Evolutionist 1st Edition

Author(s)

Richard G. Delisle, James Tierney

Edition

1st Edition

ISBN

9781350259584, 9781350259768, 9781350259577

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

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.