History, humanity and evolution : essays for John C. Greene

Preface Introductory conversation 1. Erasmus Darwin: Doctor of Evolution? R. Porter 2. Nature's powers: a reading of Lamarck's distinction between creation and production L. Jordanova 3. Lamarckism and democracy: corporations, corruption, and comparative anatomy in the 1830s A. Desmond 4. The nebular hypothesis and the science of progress S. Schaffer 5. Behind the veil: Robert Chambers and Vestiges J. A. Secord 6. Of love and death: why Darwin 'gave up Christianity' J. R. Moore 7. Encounters with Adam, or at least the Hyaenas: nineteenth-century visual representation of the deep past M. Rudwick 8. Huxley and woman's place in science: the 'woman question' and the control of Victorian anthropology E. Richards 9. Ideology, evolution, and late-Victorian agnostic popularizers B. Lightman 10. Ernst Haeckel, Darwinismus, and the secularization of nature P. Weindling 11. Holding your head up high: degeneration and orthogenesis in theories of human evolution P. J. Bowler 12. Evolution, ideology, and world view: Darwinian religion in the twentieth century J. R. Durant 13. Persons, organisms, and ... primary qualities R. M. Young Afterword John C. Greene Index.