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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      29 August 2010
      20 July 2009
      ISBN:
      9780511694301
      9781108005517
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511694301
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.41kg, 324 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, English Literature 1830-1900
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Darwin, Evolution and Genetics
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    Literature, Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, English Literature 1830-1900
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Darwin, Evolution and Genetics
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    William Bateson claimed at the Darwin Centenary in 1909 that Samuel Butler (1835–1902) was 'the most brilliant and by far the most interesting of Darwin's opponents, whose works are at length emerging from oblivion.' Best remembered today as the author of the novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh, he also wrote on a range of subjects from translations of Homer to studies of evolutionary thought. In his Life and Habit (published in 1878) Butler contended that much of inheritance was based on habit making a feature ingrained, to the extent that it could pass between generations. However, he strongly contests Darwin's views on natural selection, and supports those of Lamarck – who he felt was unjustly overlooked in the scientific rush to acclaim Darwin – and of St George Mivart, whose On the Genesis of Species, published in 1871, was another blast against natural selection by a disenchanted Darwinist.

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