1. Darwinism in Europe from 1850-1890
The following factors will be compared and contrasted between countries because of their reception of Darwinism: in Ireland, through the Protestant church and how Catholics rejected the idea, in the Netherlands, three specific groups who made up a political-religious divide between progressive liberals and conservative Christians, and in France, how early theories of evolution and natural selection gave way to Darwin's theory. 1 The nineteenth century started the rise of political nationalism in Ireland and, as a result, dominated politics in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centu...
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