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Alter examines how comparative philology provided a genealogical model of language that Darwin, as well as other scientists and language scholars, used to construct rhetorical parallels with the common-descent theory of evolution.

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The emphasis throughout on how analogies can influence belief is important and persuasive. All told, Alter has provided a rich and rewarding account of the often subtle connections that bound the nineteenth-century sciences of language and life. -- Gregory Radick British Journal of the History of Science

Darwinism and the Linguistic Image

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      Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
      Published 26 April 2003
      ISBN-13 9780801872440
      978-0801872440
      ISBN-10 0801872448
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      Linguistics

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Alter examines how comparative philology provided a genealogical model of language that Darwin, as well as other scientists and language scholars, used to construct rhetorical parallels with the common-descent theory of evolution.

      Trade Review
      The emphasis throughout on how analogies can influence belief is important and persuasive. All told, Alter has provided a rich and rewarding account of the often subtle connections that bound the nineteenth-century sciences of language and life. -- Gregory Radick British Journal of the History of Science

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