Darwinism and Lamarckism - Old and New

Frederick Wollaston Hutton's "Darwinism and Lamarckism: Old and New" explores a central question in the history of evolutionary thought: how species change over time, and which mechanisms truly drive that change. With a critical yet engaging approach, the book weighs Darwin's ideas against Lamarck's, examining not just the arguments themselves, but the evidence and assumptions behind them. Hutton revisits classic debates in evolutionary theory, then looks beyond inherited viewpoints to consider what might be learned from newer perspectives. The result is a thought-provoking discussion of evolution as a dynamic process—one that invites readers to question simple explanations and to see scientific theories as evolving, too. Darwinism and Lamarckism - Old and New is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899.