Evolution: the Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory.EVOLUTION: The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory EDWARD J. LARSON This book traces the 200-year history of evolutionary thought
Charles Lyell was born in Kinnordy, Angus, the eldest of ten children. . While Charles Darwin's name is synonymous with synonymous with adjective equivalent to, the same as, identical to, similar to, identified with, equal to, tantamount to, interchangeable with, one and the same as evolution, Larson points out that others helped conceive of, validate, and perpetuate the idea--against unremitting opposition. Larson documents how evolutionary thought itself has evolved. He provides context by documenting political and social thinking that influenced the idea and its spread. Phases of this story include the scandals of eugenics eugenics (y  jĕn`ĭks), study of human genetics and of methods to improve the inherited characteristics, physical and mental, of the human race. , the Scopes trial in the 1920s, and modern challenges in the United States to teaching evolution in the classroom. Mod Lib, 2004, 337 p., hardcover, $21.95.
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