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- W2011872407 abstract "The historiography of Victorian life sciences has been badly distorted by the emphasis placed on Charles Darwin. It is now a full-time job keeping up with the Darwin industry. Of course, one welcomes warmly the detailed work on the notebooks and the publication of the first volume of the superbly-edited collected letters, not least because they provide valuable material for the social historian. ' Yet the very size and energy of the Darwin industry can too easily infect one with precursoritis and whiggism: in spite of some good recent work, it is still difficult to escape totally from seeing Robert Chambers's Vestiges of 1844 in Darwinian terms.2 In a similar way, it is tempting to dismiss phrenology as an aberration, popular among the lower orders, which was deservedly relegated to the scientific demi-monde. Yet publication figures give one pause: by 1860, George Combe's phrenology textbook, the Constitution of Man, had sold 100,000 copies in Britain; by 1900, Darwin's Origin a mere 50,000. Like the" @default.
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