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David L. Hull. Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and Conceptual Development of Science . Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1988. Pp. xii + 586. ISBN 0-226-36050-4. £31.95.

Historians of biology get equally short shrift; progress has not been as rapid or full as Ruse might have hoped, presumably because of our 'too-ready acceptance of relativism' (p. 82). As I am, primarily, an historian, it may be pertinent to ask what an historian could get from this book; beyond an overview of current, neo-Darwinian evolutionary theory, not a great deal. Admittedly, Ruse acknowledges the limitations of his brief review, which does follow the main lines of existing work, but this does not excuse such a narrow survey which does little to introduce people to the relatively unexplored areas. A more balanced, wide-ranging handbook which does not antagonize those with different views, different interests, from different countries or in complementary fields of study would be welcome. Perhaps it takes more than twenty years.