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The Loss of Rational Design

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 July 2006

Friedel Weinert
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Charles Darwin published his Origin of Species on November 24, 1859. Whatever hurdle the theory of natural selection faced in its struggle for acceptance, its impact on human self-images was almost immediate. Well before Darwin had the chance of applying the principle of natural selection to human origins—in his Descent of Man (1871)—his contemporaries quickly and rashly drew the infer–ence to man’s descent from the ape. Satirical magazines like Punch delighted in depicting Darwin with his imposing head on an apish body. At the Oxford meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (June 1860), Bishop Wilberforce asked T.

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Research Article
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Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplements , Volume 56: Philosophy, Biology and Life , December 2005 , pp. 20 - 21
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy and the contributors 2005

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