caa a22 4500 386398410 CHVBK 20180307112147.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198909 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0007087400026169 doi S0007087400026169 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0007087400026169 Bowler Peter J. Department of Social Anthropology, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN. Development and Adaptation: Evolutionary Concepts in British Morphology, 1870-1914 [Elektronische Daten] [Peter J. Bowler] Bernard Norton's research concentrated on the Biometrical school of Darwinism and the social implications of the hereditarian ideas that began to gain popularity in the closing years of the nineteenth century. In this article I want to look at the previous generation of evolutionists, the evolutionary morphologists against whom the Biometricians (and their great rivals, the early Mendelians) were reacting. Despite the prominence of evolutionary morphology in the post-Darwinian era, comparatively little historical work has been done on it. In helping to fill this gap, I hope to honour Bernard Norton's memory by throwing light on a movement that forms a conceptual bridge linking the original Darwinian debate to the Biometrical - Mendelian controversy. I shall also argue that evolutionary morphology had ideological overtones that helped to shape the cultural environment within which the eugenics movement would emerge. Although originally a product of the Victorian faith in progress, evolutionary morphology seemed to confirm that exposure to an unstimulating environment led to degeneration. It thus fuelled the concern over racial degeneration which the supporters of eugenics would seek to allay through the application of their new hereditarian philosophy. Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1989 The British Journal for the History of Science Cambridge University Press 22/3(1989-09), 283-297 0007-0874 22:3<283 1989 22 BJH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087400026169 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087400026169 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Bowler Peter J. Department of Social Anthropology, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The British Journal for the History of Science Cambridge University Press 22/3(1989-09), 283-297 0007-0874 22:3<283 1989 22 BJH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge