Evolution, Old & New

Samuel Butler's spirited examination of theories of evolution, championing the earlier evolutionists against Darwin's account of natural selection.

At a glance A provocative, independent-minded contribution to the great scientific debate of its age. When the theory of evolution was reshaping how humanity understood itself, Samuel Butler… Evolution, Old and New is his argument that the story of evolutionary thought did not… What it's about Butler surveys the history of evolutionary ideas, giving prominence to…

Butler surveys the history of evolutionary ideas, giving prominence to earlier naturalists and thinkers, among them Buffon, Erasmus Darwin, and Lamarck, whom he felt had been unjustly overshadowed.