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Article: Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender.
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- June 1, 2001
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Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender. Edited by Ronald L. Numbers and John Stenhouse. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xii + 300 pp. $54.95 cloth.
In his book, The Darwinian Revolution, Michael Ruse asserted that by 1873 "the scientific community [in England] had made a complete about-face on the question of evolution." His evidence was the language of a question set by Cambridge University in its science examination; students were to assume the truth of the hypothesis that the existing species of plants,and animals have been derived by generation from others widely different (xii). Whatever this says about the ...