Table of Contents

Preface
Preface to the Original Edition
Ackowledgments
Chapter 1. The Eclipse and Its Implications
Chapter 2. The Defense of Darwinism
Chapter 3. The Decline of Theistic Evolutionism
Chapter 4. Lamarckism
Chapter 5. Anti-Darwinism in France
Chapter 6. The American School
Chapter 7. Orthogenesis
Chapter 8. The Mutation Theory
Notes
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index

About the Author

Peter J. Bowler is reader in the history of philosophy of sceince at the Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland. His other books include The Non-Darwinian Revolution, The Mendelian Revolution, and Theories of Human Evolution.

Reviews

Establishes the context and the necessity for reconciliation between Darwinism and the other biological subdisciplines that occurred in the years following the 1920s. American Scientist