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Far from depleted…

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 February 2015

Neeraja Sankaran
Neeraja Sankaran*
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Ashoka University
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There's just no deleting Darwin, not really. Even Peter Bowler, the title to whose delightful book purports to do just that, is quick to add in the subtitle that he is only imagining the history of science without Darwin. The sixty-three essays written by a like number of scholars, Bowler among them (some articles are co-authored and a handful of authors have contributed to more than one essay) in the recently published Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought bear additional witness to the fact that Darwin's ideas continue to exert a powerful influence on historians, philosophers and biologists alike.

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Essay Review
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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 48 , Issue 1 , March 2015 , pp. 171 - 174
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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 2015 

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4 Bowler, op. cit. (3), p. 223.