It was long believed that evolutionary theories received an almost
universally cold reception in British natural history circles in
the first half of the nineteenth century. However, a relatively
recently serious doubt has been cast on this assumption. This book
shows that Edinburgh in the late 1820s and early 1830s was witness
to a ferment of radical new ideas on the natural world, including
speculation on the origin and evolution of life, at just the time
when Charles Darwin was a student in the city. Those who were
students in Edinburgh at the time could have hardly avoided coming
into contact with these new ideas. This book is the first major
study of what was probably the most important centre or
pre-Darwinian evolutionary thought in the British Isles. It sheds
new light on the genesis and development of one of the most
important scientific theories in the history of western thought.
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