A lunatic idea: British science and evolution on the eve of Darwin's Origin of Species
- Author
- Professor Iain McCalman, University of Sydney
- Published
- Wed 29 Apr 2009
- Episode Link
- https://www.nma.gov.au/audio/charles-darwin-series/a-lunatic-idea-british-science-and-evolution-on-the-eve-of-darwins-emorigin-of-speciesem
Date recorded: 26 February 2009.
Historian Iain McCalman explores the dominant scientific attitudes to ideas of evolution in Britain in the years before Darwin's Origin is published. He explains why evolution was widely regarded as a lunatic theory and was resisted so fiercely.
