Progress Unchained: Ideas of Evolution, Human History and the Future

by Peter J. Bowler

Book Overview

Progress Unchained reinterprets the history of the idea of progress using parallels between evolutionary biology and changing views of human history. Early concepts of progress in both areas saw it as the ascent of a linear scale of development toward a final goal. The 'chain of being' defined a hierarchy of living things with humans at the head, while social thinkers interpreted history as a development toward a final paradise or utopia. Darwinism...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108842550
• ISBN13: 9781108842556
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 314 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.7" x 9.2"