Publisher's Synopsis
"Intriguing and insightful."-William Kimler, American Scientist
"[A] volume of impressive scholarship and extensive references."-Library Journal
"One of Bowler's best."-Kevin Padian, Nature
"[Bowler's] comprehensive review of the various debates and ideas in taxonomy, morphology, and vertebrate evolution . . . deserves the attention of biologists and other scholars interested in the history of ideas."-Choice
"The persistence of pre-Darwinian modes of thought in contemporary biology underlines the importance of Bowler's book. Its value is not only in the history it provides, but also in the way it illumines the present."-Peter J. Causton, Boston Book Review