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Using his unrivaled knowledge of Charles Darwin and the revolution associated with his name, Peter J. Bowler digs deeply and profoundly into the ideas and events that Darwin's On the Origin of Species started by asking what would have happened had Darwin died young and the Origin never been written. Would science have gone on much the same; would social ideas associated with Darwin make no appearance? Bowler raises and discusses these and related questions in a work that is fun and informative. Whether or not he is right or wrong in his judgments, he makes you rethink yours. Buy the book and challenge Bowler's counterfactual history. --Michael Ruse, author of Darwinism and Its Discontents

""Using his unrivaled knowledge of Charles Darwin and the revolution associated with his name, Peter J. Bowler digs deeply and profoundly into the ideas and events that Darwin's On the Origin of Species started by asking what would have happened had Darwin died young and the Origin never been written. Would science have gone on much the same; would social ideas associated with Darwin make no appearance? Bowler raises and discusses these and related questions in a work that is fun and informative. Whether or not he is right or wrong in his judgments, he makes you rethink yours. Buy the book and challenge Bowler's counterfactual history."" -Michael Ruse, author of Darwinism and Its Discontents""

Using his unrivaled knowledge of Charles Darwin and the revolution associated with his name, Peter J. Bowler digs deeply and profoundly into the ideas and events that Darwin's On the Origin of Species started by asking what would have happened had Darwin died young and the Origin never been written. Would science have gone on much the same; would social ideas associated with Darwin make no appearance? Bowler raises and discusses these and related questions in a work that is fun and informative. Whether or not he is right or wrong in his judgments, he makes you rethink yours. Buy the book and challenge Bowler's counterfactual history. -Michael Ruse, author of Darwinism and Its Discontents

A coup in counterfactual history. Only Peter Bowler, with his unique command of intellectual history, would dare to propose this book's radical heresy. Darwinian atheists will excommunicate him, 'God delusionists' will slate him for deposing their tribal deity. But it is only by denying Darwin's historical necessity that the freedom to augur a world of post-Darwinian alternatives becomes possible. <br>--James Moore, co-author of Darwin's Sacred Cause

Using his unrivaled knowledge of Charles Darwin and the revolution associated with his name, Peter Bowler digs deeply and profoundly into the ideas and events that Darwin's Origin of Species started by asking what would have happened had Darwin died young and the Origin never been written. Would science have gone on much the same; would social ideas associated with Darwin make no appearance? Bowler raises and discusses these and related questions in a work that is fun and informative. Whether or not he is right or wrong in his judgments, he makes you rethink yours. Buy the book and challenge Bowler's counterfactual history. <br>--Michael Ruse, author of Darwinism and Its Discontents

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Peter J. Bowler is professor emeritus of the history of science at Queen's University Belfast. His books include Evolution: The History of an Idea, The Eclipse of Darwinism, The Non-Darwinian Revolution, Charles Darwin: The Man and His Influence, Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons, Life's Splendid Drama, and Reconciling Science and Religion, the latter two also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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