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Article: Science Serialized: Representations of the Sciences in Nineteenth-century Periodicals.
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- August 1, 2005
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Science Serialized: Representations of the Sciences in Nineteenth-century Periodicals
Geoffrey Cantor and Sally Shuttle-worth, eds. 2004. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press. [ISBN 0-262-03318-6. 358 pages, including index. $40.00 USD.]
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In 1858, Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace jointly submitted a paper on evolution by natural selection to the Linnean Society of London. The next year, Darwin published On the origin of species. For the rest of the century, evolution was the leading subject of scientific discussion. However, evolution was already being discussed at the beginning of the century, thanks to earlier evolutionary ...