As I wrote here last week, Peter J. Bowler's new book Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World Without Darwin (University of Chicago Press) is an extended complaint directed at Darwin's critics and forms an unconvincing historical apologetic for the social ramifications of the evolutionary theory that bears his name. (PopSci has published a brief excerpt from the book, which you can read here. Go here for the admiring review in New Scientist.) The fact that Darwinism is in need of an apologetic for...
Published on April 17, 2013 05:54