Malthus, Mutualism, and the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England
by
Piers J. Hale
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Historians of science have long noted the influence of the nineteenth-century political economist Thomas Robert Malthus on Charles Darwin. In a bold move, Piers J. Hale contends that this focus on Malthus and his effect on Darwin’s evolutionary thought neglects a strong anti-Malthusian tradition...