The Logic of Chance: The Nature and Origin of Biological Evolution

Endnotes

Chapter 1

1 In a rather remarkable feat of serendipity, Lamarck’s magnum opus, La Philosophie Zoologique, appeared in print the year Darwin was born.

2 A wonderfully insightful account of the immediate impact and public perception of Darwin’s book can be found in John Fowles’s novel The French Lieutenant’s Woman (Fowles, J. 1969. The French lieutenant’s woman. Boston: Little & Brown).

3 The term Darwinism obviously could not have been used by Darwin himself, and it is a rather unfortunate, even if well-intended, neologism of Darwin’s prime follower and defender, Thomas Henry Huxley, in a review of Origin (Huxley, T. H. 1860. “Darwin on the origin of Species.” Westminster Review: 541-570). The word seems to have a distinct dogmatic, even ...