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| Genre/Form: | Sources Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Charles Darwin; Charles Darwin |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Rebecca Stott |
| ISBN: | 9781400069378 1400069378 |
| OCLC Number: | 754714047 |
| Description: | xviii, 396 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Darwin's list : Kent, 1859 -- Aristotle's eyes : Lesbos, 344 BC -- The worshipful curiosity of Jahiz : Basra and Baghdad, 850 -- Leonardo and the potter : Milan, 1493 ; Paris, 1570 -- Trembley's polyp : The Hague, 1740 -- The Consul of Cairo : Cairo, 1708 -- The Hotel of the Philosophers : Paris, 1749 -- Erasmus underground : Derbyshire, 1767 -- The Jardin des Plantes : Paris, 1800 -- The sponge philosopher : Edinburgh, 1826 -- The encyclopedist : Edinburgh, 1844 -- Alfred Wallace's fevered dreams : Malay Archipelago, 1858 -- Epilogue -- Appendix: An historical sketch of the recent progress of opinion on the Origin of species / by Charles Darwin. |
| Responsibility: | Rebecca Stott. |
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I enjoyed this carefully-constructed work, Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution. Unfortunately, I lack the ability to judge its adequacy dealing with the facts of history. At any rate, the documentation seems to me exemplary. The writing...
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I enjoyed this carefully-constructed work, Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution. Unfortunately, I lack the ability to judge its adequacy dealing with the facts of history. At any rate, the documentation seems to me exemplary. The writing itself was better than average, that is, not worth praising particularly.
I noted one anachronism that I could not puzzle out: Chapter 6, The Consul of Cairo, is dated 1708, whereas Chapter 5, Trembley's Polyp, is dated 1740. All the other chapters after the first one (as introduction to the book) are in historical sequence. Without a ready explanation, this suggests shear carelessness. Also, the word 'of' was missing on page 235, line 10 from the bottom of the page.
I would have preferred reading greater detail on the difference in inspiration between Darwin and Wallace, that is, the former's appeals to artificial selection (e.g., pigeon breeding) and the latter's crediting of Malthus. My intuition is that both sources of information are validly pertinent and should have been readily available to both theorists. Was there a historical reason for their selective attention?
Author Rebecca Stott makes a good point, well said, in seeing the analogy between biological evolution and the conceptual evolution of thinking about it. At the same time, she could have addressed the psychological theorizing of the times that form an important context, however possibly subconscious: selection by consequences (technically referred to as operant reinforcement) occurs in the conduct of individuals. Apparently one of the most well-known of science popularizers then was psychologist Herbert Spencer, who like Darwin drew upon and advanced the fuzzier ideas of the past.
In (as I recall) Robert Boakes' From Darwin to Behaviourism I read that on Darwin's deathbed he caved somewhat on the reality of Lamarkian selection, at least as regards human evolution. When I confronted a familial descendent of Darwin's in the Q/A of a talk as part of a book tour, he admitted this but was also quick to deny that Darwin had a religious conversion, as some Biblical creationists have speculated. This would have been good to include here, speaking of ghosts and secrets.
In short, there is more interesting history remaining to be uncovered and laid out for edification of us non-professionals.
I see a big difference between ghosts and history/memories, and between secrets and mere ignorance. I suppose Stott can be given some literary license, but if one is going to be "flowery" and "intriguing", then it should be done notably well or not at all.
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