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184 Annals of the History and Philosophy of Biology, Vol. 10 (2005) Michael Ruse My gut instinct as a partisan is to say that one side is right and the other wrong, but that is what partisans say. My more reflective opinion as a historian is that we have rival and ongoing world pictures, very much akin to Kuhnian paradigms. Not strictly paradigms, for apart from the fact that both sides see at least something in the opinions of the rivals, there is not a sequential process, with one paradigm beating out the other. Rather there are ongoing world pictures, and in this sense the Darwinian Revolution was no revolution. Epilogue When I set out to write the Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw, I had no worries about my topic. There was a Darwinian Revolution and I was going to write a book about it. I did just this, and neither I nor my early readers – most friendly, some critical, a few vitriolic – doubted that there was a phenomenon there about which I had written. Now, nearly thirty years later, as you can see, I think matters are rather more complex. But let me say that I do not see this as a matter of regret, and certainly not a cause to feel sad that I have spent so much of my life as a scholar talking and writing about a phenomenon that may or may not exist. If scholars felt that way, then most theologians would be out of business by lunchtime. Rather, I now see how much more complex – and interesting – things are than what I and others once thought. And that is an excellent thing. Having said this, if you want a good entry into the debate, might I recommend The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw. It is a great place to start! References Agassiz, E C (ed.) (1885) Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence. Houghton Mifflin, Boston. Agassiz, L. (1859) Essay on Classification. Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts and Trubner, London. Barrett, P H, Gautrey, P J, Herbert, S, Kohn, D, Smith, S. (eds.) (1987) Charles Darwin's Notebooks, 1836-1844. Cornell University Press, Ithaca. Bates, H W. [1862](1977) Contributions to an insect fauna of the Amazon Valley. In: Barrett, P H (ed.) Collected Papers of Charles Darwin. Chicago University Press, Chicago. pp. 87-92. Beatty, J. (1987) Dobzhansky and Drift: Facts, Values and Chance in Evolutionary Biology. In: Kruger, L. (ed.) The Probabilistic Revolution. MIT Press, Cambridge. Bowler, P. J. (1988) The non-Darwinian Revolution: Reinterpreting a Historical Myth. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore. Bowler, P. J. (1996) Life's Splendid Drama. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.
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