The Eclipse of Pseudo-Darwinism? Reflections on Some Recent Developments in Darwin Studies

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These include Di Gregorio Mario A. , From here to eternity: Ernst Haeckel and scientific faith (Goettingen, 2005); Gliboff Sander Bronn H. G. Haeckel Ernst , and the origins of German Darwinism: A study in translation and transformation. (Cambridge, MA, 2008); and Richards Robert , The tragic sense of life: Ernst Haeckel and the struggle over evolutionary thought (Chicago, 2008).

Amundson Ron , The changing role of the embryo in evolutionary thought (Cambridge, 2005).

Desmond Adrian Moore James R. , Darwin (London, 1993).

Sloan Philip R. , “‘The sense of sublimity’: Darwin on nature and divinity”, Osiris, xli (2001), 251–69; Richards Robert J. , The meaning of evolution: The morphological construction and ideological reconstruction of Darwin's theory (Chicago, 1991); and idem, “Michael Ruse's design for living”, Journal of the history of biology, xxxvii (2004), 2004–38.

Hodge M. J. S. , “Darwin and the laws of the animate part of the terrestrial system (1835–1837): On the Lyellian origins of his zoonomical explanatory programme”, Studies in the history of biology, vi (1982), 1–106; and Ruse Michael , “The romantic conception of Richards Robert J. ”, Journal of the history of biology, xxxvii (2004), 2004–37.

Gliboff , op. cit. (ref. 2).

The reference is to E. S. Russell's classic study, Form and function: A contribution to the history of animal morphology (London, 1916).

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Bowler Peter J. , “What Darwin disturbed: The biology that might have been”, Isis, xcix (2008), 560–7.

Amundson , op. cit. (ref. 3). For my critique of this aspect of Amundson's position see my review of his book, The British journal of the history of science, xl (2007), 460–2.

See Bartholomew Michael , “Huxley's defence of Darwinism”, Annals of science, xxxii (1975), 525–35, and Di Gregorio Mario A. Huxley's T. H. place in natural science (New Haven, 1984). For Michael Ruse's view see his Monad to man: The concept of progress in evolutionary biology (Cambridge, MA, 1996), 218–21.

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Di Gregorio Richards Gliboff , opera cit. (ref. 2).

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For my own account of American neo-Lamarckism see Bowler Peter J. , Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian evolution theories in the decades around 1900 (Baltimore, 1983), chap. 6.

See Haeckel Ernst , The history of creation, or the development of the Earth and its inhabitants by the action of natural causes (New York, 1876), ii, facing p. 188.

Bowler Peter J. , “The specter of Darwinism: The popular image of Darwinism in early twentieth-century Britain”, in Lustig A. Richards R. J. Ruse M. (eds), Darwinian heresies (Cambridge, 2004), 48–68.

Francis , op. cit. (ref. 14).

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Desmond Moore , op. cit. (ref. 10).

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