Darwin's place in the history of thought: a reevaluation.
Scholars have usually given Darwin's theory a neo-Darwinian interpretation. A more careful examination of the language of Darwin's notebooks and the language of the Origin of Species indicates that he reconstructed nature with a definite purpose: the final goal of man as a moral creature. In the aftermath of the Origin, Darwin, however, became more circumspect.
Richards
Robert J
RJ
Department of History, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. r-richards@uchicago.edu
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