Evolution
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23660977 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas M Lessl (University of Georgia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 1-8 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781118766804.wbiect188 |
| OpenAlex | W4253002814 |
| ISBN | 9781118766804 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Evolution may denote the scientific field concerned with the natural history of life and the mechanisms that account for its development, but it can also mean evolutionism, a broader alignment between evolutionary ideas and the idea of progress. Evolutionism has been an important communication resource in modernity, especially within various scientistic movements that have helped to forge science's public identity. Its supposition that progress arises through natural development descends from an earlier association between science and providence that 17th‐century science appropriated from Francis Bacon. Bacon's millenarian belief that science had arrived at the end of history, as God's ordained means to restore the fallen creation, underwent a process of naturalization in the Enlightenment that gave way to evolutionism. With the rise of evolutionary science after Darwin, evolutionism became a vital symbolic resource for scientists like Thomas Huxley, who were trying to enlarge the scope of scientific patronage.
Aesthetics · Darwin (ADL) · Darwinism · Enlightenment · Epistemology · Evolutionism · Identity (music) · Millenarianism · Modernity · Political science · Scope (computer science) · Sociology · Computer Science · Evolution and Science Education · History · Law · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |