Robert M. Young Online Writings
'Desmond and Moore's Darwin: A Critique' 63k
This is a revised version of a paper delivered to the History of Ideas Club, King's College, Cambridge, November 1992. It was published in Science as Culture (no. 20) 4: 393-424, 1994. It reviews this much-admired book, drawing attention to the shortcomings of narrative biography and their failure to engage with the history of ideas and historiography.