Tag: Julian Huxley
New Book: Social Darwinism Among the Biologists
The authors imply that social Darwinism was a position taken by non-scientists who just didn’t understand the science.
Himmelfarb and Her Haters
What can be said of Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution in the dusk of 2009, fifty year after its original publication? Is it a terrible book?
Farewell to Gertrude Himmelfarb, Brutally Honest Historian of the “Darwinian Revolution”
Written in 1959, her monumental book, Darwin and the Darwinian Revolution, continues to tower over Whiggish studies on the subject.
Darwinism: Past, Present, and Future
Amidst all this chest thumping over neo-Darwinian certainties, doubts are unmistakably on the rise.
The Neo-Darwinian Synthesis: A Fable Told by Ernst Mayr
Mayr worked tirelessly to establish a synthesis bearing the unmistakable stamp of positivism.