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Arabella Buckley's Epic: Uniting Evolutionary Epic & Spiritualism to Account for the Evolution of Morals from Mutualism

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dc.contributor.authorLarsen, Jordan
dc.date.accessioned2016-05-09T19:46:43Z
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-14T14:56:33Z
dc.date.available2016-05-09T19:46:43Z
dc.date.available2021-04-14T14:56:33Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractUtilizing OU’s History of Science Collections, I focused my Honors College Research project on exploring the popularization of Victorian science, specifically that conducted by Arabella Buckley. Many of Charles Darwin’s contemporaries interpreted his theory of natural selection as evidence of competition ruling nature. Science writer and popularizer Arabella Buckley was the first to characterize Darwin’s theory of the evolution of morals as mutualistic rather than materialistic, and she did so through a unique consolidation of evolutionary epic and spiritualism. While scholars have stressed Buckley’s contribution to the evolutionary narrative as either driven by a maternal tradition or motivated by her spiritualistic beliefs, I aim to show that the significance of her distinctive, mutualistic addition to the debate on the evolution of morals lies in her unifying theory of traducianism.en_US
dc.description.abstractUniversity Libraries Undergraduate Research Awarden_US
dc.description.undergraduateundergraduate
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11244.46/69
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/*
dc.subjectPopularization of Victorian Scienceen_US
dc.subjectBuckley, Arabellaen_US
dc.subjectDarwin, Charlesen_US
dc.subjectUniversity Libraries Undergraduate Research Awarden_US
dc.titleArabella Buckley's Epic: Uniting Evolutionary Epic & Spiritualism to Account for the Evolution of Morals from Mutualismen_US
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