Darwin and Modern Science
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- University students and researchers in the history of science and the reception history of evolution
- General readers who want to understand how Darwin's theory influenced multiple disciplines
- Biology teachers selecting history-of-science material for classroom extension
- Popular-science enthusiasts with sufficient English reading ability
Not a good fit for
- Beginners hoping to read Darwin's original works
- Researchers expecting the latest advances in contemporary evolutionary biology
- Ordinary readers who find English difficult and need extensive Chinese annotations
Reading tips
- Read the table of contents and the editor's introduction first, then select individual chapters by the discipline you care about; there is no need to read from cover to cover.
- Before reading each chapter, identify the author's field and the year of writing, and avoid treating early twentieth-century views as current consensus.
- Compare the extensions of Darwin's theory in the text with contemporary evolutionary biology textbooks, and note similarities and differences.
- Read alongside relevant chapters of On the Origin of Species to understand the distance between the original text and later interpretations.
About the publisher
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About the author
A. C. Seward (Albert Charles Seward, 1863–1941) was a British botanist and geologist who devoted his career to the study of fossil plants and served as Master of Downing College, Cambridge. One work by him is held in the collection, Darwin and Modern Science. The book examines the relationship between Darwinian evolution and modern science, bringing together contributions from various scholars who respond to and extend Darwin's ideas from botanical, geological, and other perspectives, reflecting how the scientific community received and debated evolutionary theory in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Seward's background gave him a dual botanical and geological vantage point on fossil plants and evolutionary questions. Public information on his life and work is limited; the present account rests mainly on his field of research and the subject matter of this representative work, which is written as scientific exposition and places concrete material within the framework of evolutionary theory.
