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How the Victorians Learned about Darwin’s Theories: Popularizing Evolution

EPISODE · Jun 30, 2010

How the Victorians Learned about Darwin’s Theories: Popularizing Evolution

from Yale University: Humanities · host Whitney Humanities Center

Bernard Lightman’s research focuses on the cultural history of Victorian science. In speaking about the popularization of and attacks upon Darwin’s theories of evolution and natural selection, he draws on his 2007 study Victorian Popularizers of Science.

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