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Darwin and the popularization of evolution
Bernard Lightman
309 Bethune College, Department of Humanities, York University, 4700 Keele
Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3
Abstract
Evolution was popularized from 1860 to 1900 in the USA and Britain in a wide
variety of media. Here I investigate traditional texts associated with the
intellectual elite, including philosophical or scientific monographs,
sermons, and published lectures. Evolution was rarely popularized in ways
that reflected Darwin's major contribution to biology, his theory of natural
selection. This meant that the reading audience more often encountered an
alternative to Darwin's naturalistic, non-directional and non-progressive
evolutionary perspective. There were at least four different versions of
evolution circulating in the period from 1860 to 1900, and only one
conformed to Darwin's vision.
Source: The Royal Society
http://rsnr.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2009/08/24/rsnr.2009.0007.abstract?papetoc
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