Robert E. Grant: The social predicament of a pre-Darwinian transmutationist Export

@article{citeulike:2188436, abstract = {Wakley in 1846 called Grant ” at once the most eloquent, the most accomplished, the most self-sacrificing, and the most unrewarded man in the profession.”128 I have shown some of the reasons why this was so, and I have suggested that his Lamarckism was one of a number of factors that served to alienate him from the conservative scientific community in the 1830's and 1840's. I have further shown the need for a fundamental rethinking of Grant's position in the history of biology. There is little profit in seeing him as a precursor of Darwin. His importance lies as a teacher of philosophical anatomy and as the disseminator of Geoffroy's views in London. With the recent interest of historians in the emergence of a non-Paleyite approach to design in the 1830's (that is, an approach stemming from a unity of plan), a reassessment of Grant along these lines seems in order.}, author = {Desmond, Adrian}, citeulike-article-id = {2188436}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00143732}, doi = {10.1007/BF00143732}, journal = {Journal of the History of Biology}, keywords = {analysis, anatomy, grant, medicine, radical, reform, university, zoology}, month = {June}, number = {2}, pages = {189--223}, posted-at = {2008-01-02 15:10:26}, priority = {0}, title = {Robert E. Grant: The social predicament of a pre-Darwinian transmutationist}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00143732}, volume = {17}, year = {1984} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2188436 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2188436 N2 - Wakley in 1846 called Grant “at once the most eloquent, the most accomplished, the most self-sacrificing, and the most unrewarded man in the profession.”128 I have shown some of the reasons why this was so, and I have suggested that his Lamarckism was one of a number of factors that served to alienate him from the conservative scientific community in the 1830's and 1840's. I have further shown the need for a fundamental rethinking of Grant's position in the history of biology. There is little profit in seeing him as a precursor of Darwin. His importance lies as a teacher of philosophical anatomy and as the disseminator of Geoffroy's views in London. With the recent interest of historians in the emergence of a non-Paleyite approach to design in the 1830's (that is, an approach stemming from a unity of plan), a reassessment of Grant along these lines seems in order. IS - 2 JF - Journal of the History of Biology EP - 223 TI - Robert E. Grant: The social predicament of a pre-Darwinian transmutationist VL - 17 SP - 189 KW - analysis KW - anatomy KW - grant KW - medicine KW - radical KW - reform KW - university KW - zoology AU - Desmond, Adrian PY - 1984/06/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00143732 ER -