Global spencerism: the communication and appropriation of a British evolutionist

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Boston: Brill (2016)
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In "Global Spencerism" the authors analyse the communication and appropriation of Herbert Spencer s ideas around the globe. In the last quarter of the nineteenth century Spencer s distinctive theory of evolution, based on Lamarckianism, was almost as influential as Darwin s."

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