Abstract
Greene, History Emeritus Professor at the University of Connecticut (Storrs), is one of the foremost experts in the history of evolutionary thought. His The Death of Adam: Evolution and Its Impact on Western Thought (1959) and Darwin and the Modern World View (1961) are now classic studies of the influence of Darwin on Western intellectual life. Debating Darwin is an autobiographical retrospective of Greene’s distinguished career in which he explores Darwinism both as a successful scientific theory and as a world view that served essentially as a religious and philosophical faith.