The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology's Imaginary Futures, 1900–1935

The Arrival of the Fittest: Biology's Imaginary Futures, 1900–1935, 1, 2025 is a comprehensive biology reference published by Other Publisher. Description By Jim Endersby In the early twentieth century, varied audiences took biology out of the hands of specialists and transformed it into mass culture, transforming our understanding of heredity in the process.

Key Features

- In the early twentieth century, varied audiences took biology out of the hands of specialists and transformed it into mass culture, transforming our understanding of heredity in…
- 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…
- 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…
- Wells and Edith Wharton to Charlotte Perkins Gilman, J.B.S
- Haldane, and Aldous Huxley created a new kind of imaginary future, which Jim Endersby calls the biotopia
- It took the ambiguous possibilities of biology—utopian and dystopian—and reimagined them in ways that still influence the public’s understanding of the life sciences

Product Details

Publisher: Other Publisher
Edition: 1
Published Year: 2025
Format: EPUB
File Size: 4.7 MB
ISBN: 978-0226837567, 9780226837550, 9780226837567