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Photo: Darwin seated, Shrewsbury Library, by Elliott Brown from Birmingham, United Kingdom, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Enlightened No More: Darwin as Prefiguration of Postmodern Man

Whether we like it or not, Erasmus Darwin’s simple and predictable world is no more, and we now find ourselves subject to a profoundly mysterious cosmos. Read More ›
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With “Fluctuating” Convictions, Darwin Faced a Threefold Challenge

In what follows I pose the question of how Darwin fell subject to such wide “fluctuations” in his beliefs and how he came to resolve those tensions. Read More ›
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Darwin and the Ghost of Lamarck

The lure of Lamarck was exemplified most strikingly in the case of Viennese biologist Paul Kammerer and the unhappy affair of the “midwife toad.” Read More ›

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