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Darwin Booklet.Pdf 0227Books 2/20/09 1:38 PM Page 1171 BOOKS ETAL. ing the translation of Origin of Species into translations involved an attempt to recast exist- And so, finally, we come to Haeckel. German, and (more intriguingly) diachroni- ing German terms in a newer, more up-to-date Gliboff’s key insight here is that Haeckel cally, as scientists reworked older words such mode that encompassed selection yet tamed originally read Bronn’s translation of Darwin, as “perfection” and “type” to lend them new Darwin’s emphasis on unpredictability to meet not Darwin in the original. Gliboff shows meanings. Gliboff’s own clear, crisp prose is the more rigorous requirements of a German Haeckel as both echoing and responding to key to the success of this analysis, as he deftly academic scientist’s understanding of a “law” Bronn’s concerns, rather than either reflect- leads his reader through dense philosophical of organic nature. Simultaneously, Bronn ing directly on Darwin’s original writing or and terminological thickets with nary a thorn sought to translate Darwin’s ideas about selec- reaching directly back to the Romantic scratch. This is some of the best close reading tion into a language without an exact equiva- embryologists. (Although Gliboff acknowl- I have seen. It also represents a profound chal- lent for the term, and for an academic audience edges the centrality of monism to Haeckel’s lenge to our standard picture of 19th-century lacking the gentlemanly traditions of breeding thought, he focuses on the working evolution- German biology. pigeons and dogs so central to Darwin’s expo- ary theorist, not the popular ideologue.) Like The old story, crudely put, is that Haeckel’s sition. The selection metaphor was further Bronn himself, Haeckel made further amend- version of evolution was a Darwinism in name fraught with an anthropomorphism foreign to ments both terminological and intellectual, only, best understood as an update on early- Germans, who were not brought up on British and Gliboff rereads Haeckel’s research pro- 19th-century idealistic morphologists such natural-theological assumptions about a per- gram as one not dominated by a typological as Carl0403NewsFocus.qxp F. Kielmeyer and 3/30/09 J. F. Meckel 5:23 thatPM Pagesonified 29 God who had created a perfectly and linear-recapitulationist mindset but retained their teleology, their typological adapted nature. Bronn’s translation, though it rather as continuing to wrestle with the need emphasis on form, and their linear recapitula- altered key ideas to make Darwin comprehen- to account for variability and unpredictable tionism. This story, emphasizing the long per- sible to a German academic audience, was not change in terms of mechanistic laws of sistence of a German transcendental approach a conservative throwback. It represented the nature—among which Haeckel included, at to nature, has been deeply entrenched in the dynamic engagement of a leading paleontolo- the top of his list, ORIGINSnatural selection. Haeckel’s history of biology. gist who had also long been working on many DarwinismIntroduction thus shows continuity with early- Gliboff challengesStockholm. “Whenthis history we started, right from of the questions Darwin claimed as his own— 19th-century concerns, mediated through 2 Darwin’s Inspiration, Darwin’s Legacy the beginning.the The search ascription profile was of simplebigger, linear a critical yet generous equal, who saw himself Bronn. 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