Jim Endersby: The Arrival of the Fittest

Cover: 9780226837567 | The Arrival of the Fittest | Biology's Imaginary Futures, 1900-1935

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"In the early twentieth century communities made creative use of the new theories of heredity in circulation at the time, including the now largely forgotten mutation theory of Hugo de Vries. Science fiction writers, socialists, feminists, and utopians are among those who seized on the amazing possibilities of rapid and potentially controllable evolution. De Vries's highly respected scientific theory only briefly captured the attention of the scientific community, but its many fans appropriated it for their own wildly imaginative ends. Writers from H.G. Wells and Edith Wharton, to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, J.B.S. Haldane, and Aldous Huxley created a new kind of imaginary future-what Jim Endersby calls the biotopia. It took the utopian and dystopian possibilities of biology and presented them in ways that still influence the public's understanding of the life sciences. Arrival of the Fittest recovers the fascinating, long-forgotten origins of ideas that have informed works of fiction from Brave New World to the X-Men movies, all while reflecting on the lessons-positive and negative-that this period might offer us"--

Über den Autor

Jim Endersby is professor of the history of science at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Orchid: A Cultural History, Imperial Nature: Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science, and A Guinea Pig's History of Biology.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2025
Genre:	Gattungen & Methoden , Importe
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780226837567
ISBN-10:	0226837564
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Endersby, Jim
Hersteller:	The University of Chicago Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	151 x 230 x 27 mm
Von/Mit:	Jim Endersby
Erscheinungsdatum:	06.01.2025
Gewicht:	0,626 kg

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