Tag: Julian Huxley
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.
Sick of the Oxygen Theory of the Cambrian Explosion? Here’s the Cancer Theory
Once upon a time, a cell became a tumor. Animals were soon to follow.