Article ID: CBB001022449

Darwin and Reductionisms: Victorian, Neo-Darwinian and Postgenomic Biologies (2010)

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Richardson, Angelique (Author)


19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Volume: 11
Pages: Approx. 10,600 words


Publication Date: 2010
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “Science, Literature, and the Darwin Legacy”. http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/index.php/19/article/view/583 (Accessed March 21, 2011).
Language: English

This article compares the open-ended Darwinism of Charles Darwin, George Lewes, George Eliot and Thomas Hardy with reductive post-Weismann and early eugenist views and more recent neo-Darwinian ideas including literary Darwinism. It argues that some Victorians had a clear sense of the complexities of the natural world, and of the centrality of environment to life. This awareness contrasts with the processes of divorce and isolation that underpin neo-Darwinian understandings of evolutionary development. But biologists and philosophers of biology are now emphasising the complex and dynamic relations between organism and environment in ways that would have appealed to Darwin's contemporaries. The article establishes that there are significant parallels between mid-Victorian and postgenomic thought.

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Beer, Gillian
Bowler, Peter J.
Carignan, Michael
Currie, Richard A.
Davis, Michael
Delisle, Richard G.
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Asclepio: Archivo Iberoamericano de Historia de la Medicina
Gender and History
History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences
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Journal of the History of Biology
Journal of the History of Ideas
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University of Toronto
Ashgate
Bucknell University Press
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. Press
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Concepts
Evolution
Darwinism
Science and literature
Natural selection
Medicine
Sexual selection
People
Eliot, George
Darwin, Charles Robert
Lewes, George Henry
Spencer, Herbert
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Bain, Alexander
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20th century
20th century, early
21st century
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