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

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.

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 Hugo de Vries. Science fiction writers, socialists, feminists, and utopians...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226837564
• ISBN13: 9780226837567
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 400 Pages