Peter J. Bowler

Peter Bowler attended Alderman Newton's School in Leicester before going up to King's College, Cambridge, where he read natural sciences (history and philosophy of science). He holds a BA from the University of Cambridge, an MSc from the University of Sussex and a PhD from the University of Toronto. In the 1970s he taught at the School of Humanities, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang. He is currently a professor in the history of science at Queen's University Belfast, and is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a corresponding member of the Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences. He was President of the British Society for the History of Science from 2004 to 2006. His current interests are in the development and implications of Darwinism, the history of the environmental sciences, science and religion (especially twentieth century), and popular science writing. Current research is on the production of popular science literature in early twentieth-century Britain, with particular emphasis on the role played by professional scientists. Bowler has criticised creationism in Northern Ireland. He has made appearances on local radio, including interviews with William Crawley on BBC Radio Ulster shows TalkBack and Sunday Sequence - here he defended evolution and highlighted the non-scientific nature of creationism. == Publications ==

• Fossils and Progress: Palaeontology and the Idea of Progressive Evolution in the Nineteenth Century (1976) • Theories of Human Evolution: A Century of Debate, 1844–1944 (Wiley-Blackwell 1987) • The Mendelian Revolution: The Emergence of Hereditarian Concepts in Modern Science and Society (Continuum International, Athlone, 1989) • The Invention of Progress: Victorians and the Past (Wiley-Blackwell, 1989) • The Non-Darwinian Revolution: Reinterpreting a Historical Myth (Johns Hopkins University Press, New Edition, 1988) • The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolution Theories in the Decades Around 1900 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983) • The Fontana History of the Environmental Sciences (Fontana Press, 1992) • Biology and Social Thought: 1850–1914 : Five Lectures Delivered at the International Summer School in History of Science Uppsala, July 1990 (Univ of California, 1993) • Charles Darwin: the man and his influence (Cambridge, 1996). • ''Life's splendid drama: evolutionary biology and the reconstruction of life’s ancestry, 1860–1940'' (Chicago, 1996). • Reconciling science and religion: the debate in early twentieth-century Britain (Chicago, 2001). • "The spectre of Darwinism: popular images of Darwinism in early twentieth-century Britain" in Abigail Lustig, Robert J. Richards and Michael Ruse (eds), Darwinian Heresies (Cambridge, 2004) . • (With I.R. Morus) Making modern science: a historical survey (Chicago, 2005). • 'Experts and publishers: writing popular science in early twentieth-century Britain' in British Journal for the History of Science, xxxix (2006). • Monkey Trials and Gorilla Sermons; Evolution and Christianity from Darwin to Intelligent Design (Harvard University Press, 2007) . • 'Darwin's Originality', in Science (9 January 2009: Vol. 323. no. 5911, pp. 223 – 226) • Evolution: the history of an idea (4th ed., California, 2009, ). • Science for All: The Popularization of Science in Early Twentieth-Century Britain (Chicago, 2009). • Q&A Darwin: Off the Record (with foreword by Richard Dawkins) (Duncan Baird, 2010). • Darwin Deleted: Imagining a World Without Darwin (University of Chicago Press, 2013). • A History of the Future: Prophets of Progress from H. G. Wells to Asimov (Cambridge University Press, 2017) == References ==