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• 23 Mar 07
  

  Robert A Gagnon

  correspondance darwin evolution genetics mendel tennyson

• 22 Mar 07
  

  moosbruxxer

  Philosophy Articles

  • Evolution myths Jim Endersby  Morse Peckham, editor CHARLES DARWIN’S ORIGIN OF SPECIES (Variorum Text) 816pp. University of Pennsylvania Press. $29.95; distributed in the UK by NBN. £19.50. 978 0 8122 1954 8  Frederick Burkhardt and Duncan Porter, editors THE CORRESPONDENCE OF CHARLES DARWIN Volume 14: 1866 705pp. 978 0 521 84459 8 Volume 15: 1867 655pp. 978 0 521 85931 8 Cambridge University Press. £75 each  On the morning of November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species made its first appearance and the world changed forever. An age of faith was plunged into profound religious doubt, and believers of every kind rose to pronounce anathema on Darwin’s godless tract, sparking a fresh battle in the long-running war between science and religion. But while the reactionaries raged, the scientific community soon came to accept natural selection, and the rediscovery of Gregor Mendel’s work in 1900 (which marked the founding of modern genetics) set the seal on Darwin’s triumph by providing the missing piece to his puzzle – a scientific understanding of just how inheritance works.
  • Evolution myths Jim Endersby  Morse Peckham, editor CHARLES DARWIN’S ORIGIN OF SPECIES (Variorum Text) 816pp. University of Pennsylvania Press. $29.95; distributed in the UK by NBN. £19.50. 978 0 8122 1954 8  Frederick Burkhardt and Duncan Porter, editors THE CORRESPONDENCE OF CHARLES DARWIN Volume 14: 1866 705pp. 978 0 521 84459 8 Volume 15: 1867 655pp. 978 0 521 85931 8 Cambridge University Press. £75 each  On the morning of November 24, 1859, Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species made its first appearance and the world changed forever. An age of faith was plunged into profound religious doubt, and believers of every kind rose to pronounce anathema on Darwin’s godless tract, sparking a fresh battle in the long-running war between science and religion. But while the reactionaries raged, the scientific community soon came to accept natural selection, and the rediscovery of Gregor Mendel’s work in 1900 (which marked the founding of modern genetics) set the seal on Darwin’s triumph by providing the missing piece to his puzzle – a scientific understanding of just how inheritance works.
• 17 Mar 07
  

  Marco Graziosi

  The Victorian "crisis of faith" predates Darwin's Origin of Species. Tennyson felt confronted by "nature red in tooth and claw" in 1850. Times Literary Supplement, 14 March 2007.

  Victorian evolutionary theory

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