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The evolution wars: a guide to the debates
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From the Book
Monad to man: the birth of the idea
Mystery of mysteries: the legacy of Charles Darwin
Modified monkeys: evolution as religion
The new world: Darwin in America
Cold war warriors: Darwinism and genetics
In the beginning: the origin of life
"Going the whole orang": human origins
Genetic determinism? Human sociobiology arrives
Challenges to orthodoxy: alternatives to Darwinism
Ultimate questions: science and religion.
From the Book - 2nd ed.
pt. 1. A history of evolution --
Early evolutionists in the debate : the birth of an idea --
Conflict before, during and after The origin of species : the legacy of Charles Darwin --
Darwinism explodes onto the Victorian stage : evolution as religion --
Darwin in America : the new world --
Evolution denied & extolled : the rise of Creationism, intelligent design & Darwinian religion in America --
pt. 2. Evolution matures --
Darwinism and genetics : a new frontier opens --
Life : the early years --
Two new sciences at war : placing ancestors in time --
Human sociobiology : genetic determinism --
Philosophy : evolution & thinking about knowledge & morality --
Evolutionary development : minimizing natural selection --
New evolutionary theories : thickening the plot of natural selection.
pt. 3. Documents --
Zoological philosophy / J.B. Lamarck --
Theory of the earth / G. Cuvier --
In memoriam / A. Tennyson --
On the variation of organic beings in a state of nature ; Abstract of a letter from Charles Darwin to Professor Asa Gray / Charles Darwin --
From the reception of the "Origin of species" ; From the life and letters of Thomas Huxley / T.H. Huxley --
Studies, scientific and social / A.R. Wallace --
Individualism, socialism and humanism / Karl Pearson --
From preface to mutual aid / Petr Kropotkin --
The right to make war / Friedrich von Bernhardi --
Perceptions in science : is evolution a secular religion? / Michael Ruse --
Darwiniana / A. Gray --
Letter to Asa Gray / Charles Darwin --
From the challenge of facts / William Graham Sumner --
From the gospel of wealth / Andrew Carnegie --
The law of club and fang / Jack London --
The earth speaks to Bryan / H.F. Osborn --
Magisterium is concerned with question of evolution for it involves conception of man / Pope John Paul II --
William Dembski and John Haught spar on intelligent design / Rebecca Flietstra --
Darwin under the microscope / Michael J. Behe --
Obscurantism to the rescue ; Viruses of the mind / Richard Dawkins --
The roles of mutation, inbreeding, crossbreeding and selection in evolution / Sewall Wright --
Letter to G.F. Ferris / E. Mayr --
Letter to John Greene / Theodosius Dobzhansky --
The origin of life / J.B.S. Haldane --
The origin of life
a review of facts and speculations /
Leslie E. Orgel --
From Charles Darwin's notebooks ; From The origin of species ; From The descent of man --
Lucy : the beginnings of humankind / Donald Johanson & Maitland Edey --
Sociobiology
another biological determinism /
Sociobiology Study Group of Science for the People --
Academic vigilantism and the political significance of sociobiology / Edward O. Wilson --
The evolutionary development of natural science / Stephen E. Toulmin --
Moral philosophy as applied science / Michael Ruse and Edward O. Wilson --
Forty years a philosopher of biology / Michael Ruse --
The generation of novelty / Scott F. Gilbert --
Bare-knuckle fighting / Michael Ruse --
Why pigs don't have wings / Jerry Fodor --
Letters in response to "Why pigs don't have wings" / Simon Blackburn [and others] --
The boatman poem / Colin Boatman --
The episodic nature of evolutionary change / S.J. Gould --
Did Darwin get it right? / John Maynard Smith --
pt. 4. Biographies.
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9781576071854
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