Abstract
Just as the first century CE saw no one "pure" Jewish or Christian faith, but multiple Judaisms and Jesus movements, so the nineteenth century saw varieties of evolutionary theories, including different Darwinisms. Sander Gliboff's study is a fresh, well-written, well-researched, and well-argued contribution to the historiography of how Darwin's ideas were introduced, understood, altered, and applied in various national contexts. Gliboff not only breaks new ground in our historical and theoretical understanding of Ernst Haeckel's role in the German assimilation of Darwin (Haeckel's work hugely outsold his intellectual master's), but he also examines the work of Germany's preeminent paleontologist Heinrich Georg Bronn, the person through whom Darwin's The Origin of Species first reached its German-speaking readership.