After Charles Darwin’s death, the period from the 1880s to the 1920s is known as “The Eclipse of Darwinism”.  Coined by Julian Huxley, it was a time where alternative theories to explain evolution sought to push Natural Selection aside.

 

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Works Cited

  • Darwin, Charles. The Works of Charles Darwin, Volume 20: Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Volume II (the Works of Charles Darwin, 20). 0 ed., NYU Press, 1989.

  • Dennert, Eberhard. At The Deathbed of Darwinism. Silver Street Media, 2022.

  • Humanity’s Wisdom. “Ernst Mayr and Julian Huxley Talk About Evolution (1959).” YouTube, 27 Sept. 2021, www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFX9QBs3EMk.

  • Huxley, Julian. Evolution, the Modern Synthesis. Science Editions, 1964.

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