Peter J. Bowler - Select Publications

Select Publications

• Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World Without Darwin (University of Chicago Press, 2013). ISBN 0226068676

• Q&A Darwin: Off the Record (with foreword by Richard Dawkins) (Duncan Baird, 2010).

• Science for All: The Popularization of Science in Early Twentieth-Century Britain (Chicago, 2009).

• Evolution: the history of an idea (4th ed., California, 2009).

• 'Darwin's Originality', in Science (9 January 2009: Vol. 323. no. 5911, pp. 223 – 226) doi:10.1126/science.1160332

• Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons Evolution and Christianity form Darwin to Intelligent Design (Harvard University Press, 2007)

• 'Experts and publishers: writing popular science in early twentieth-century Britain' in British Journal for the History of Science, xxxix (2006).

• (With I.R. Morus) Making modern science: a historical survey (Chicago, 2005).

• 'The spectre of Darwinism: popular images of Darwinism in early twentieth-century Britain' in A. Lustig, R.J. Richards and M. Rose (eds), Darwinian Heresies (Cambridge, 2004).

• Reconciling science and religion: the debate in early twentieth-century Britain (Chicago, 2001).

• Life’s splendid drama: evolutionary biology and the reconstruction of life’s ancestry, 1860–1940 (Chicago, 1996).

• Charles Darwin: the man and his influence (Cambridge, 1996).

• Biology and Social Thought: 1850-1914 : Five Lectures Delivered at the International Summer School in History of Science Uppsala, July 1990 (Univ of California, 1993)

• The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades Around 1900 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983)

• The Non-Darwinian Revolution: Reinterpreting a Historical Myth (Johns Hopkins University Press, New Edition, 1988)

• The Fontana History of the Environmental Sciences (Fontana Press, 1992)

• The Mendelian Revolution: The Emergence of Hereditarian Concepts in Modern Science and Society (Continuum International, Athlone, 1989)

• The Invention of Progress: Victorians and the Past (Wiley-Blackwell, 1989)

• Theories of Human Evolution: A Century of Debate, 1844-1944 (Wiley-Blackwell 1987)

• Fossils and Progress: Palaeontology and the Idea of Progressive Evolution in the Nineteenth Century (1976) ISBN 0882020439