The evolution wars : a guide to the debates /
This edition draws on history, science, and philosophy to examine the development of evolutionary thought through the past two and a half centuries.
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The evolution wars : |b a guide to the debates / |c Michael Ruse. |
| 250 | |a 2nd ed. | ||
| 260 | |a Millerton, NY : |b Grey House Pub., |c ©2009. | ||
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (xiv, 732 pages) : |b illustrations | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 588 | 0 | |a Print version record. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Pt. 1. A history of evolution -- pt. 2. Evolution matures -- pt. 3. Documents -- pt. 4. Biographies -- pt. 5. Appendices -- pt. 6. Index. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Part 1: A history of evolution: 1. Early evolutionists in the debate: the birth of the idea -- 2. Conflict before, during and after The Origin of Species: the legacy of Charles Darwin -- 3. Darwinism explodes onto the Victorian stage: Evolution as religion -- 4. Darwin in America: the new world -- 5. Evolution denied & extolled: the rise of creationism, intelligent design & Darwinian religion in America. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Part 2: Evolution matures: 6. Darwinism and genetics: a new frontier opens -- 7. Life: the early years -- 8. Two new sciences at war: placing ancestors in time -- 9. Human sociobiology: genetic determinism -- 10. Philosophy: evolution & thinking about knowledge & morality -- 11. Evolutionary development: minimizing natural selection -- 12. New evolutionary theories: thickening the plot of natural selection -- Epilogue. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Part 3: Documents: Chapter 1. Introduction; Zoological philosophy; theory of the earth; In memoriam -- Chapter 2. Introduction; On the variation of organic beings in a state of nature: on the natural means of selection; On the comparison of domestic races and true species; Abstract of a letter from Charles Darwin to Professor Asa Gray, 5 September 1857 -- Chapter 3. Introduction; From the reception of the "Origin of Species"; From the life and letters of Thomas Huxley; Studies, scientific and social; Individualism, socialism, and humanism from The Grammar of Science; From preface to mutual aid; The right to make war: from Germany and the Next War; Perceptions in Science: is evolution a secular religion? -- Chapter 4. Introduction; Darwiniana; Letter to Asa Gray; From The Challenge of Facts and Other Essays; From The Gospel of Wealth and Other Timely Essays; The law of club and fang: from The Call of the Wild; The Earth Speaks to Bryan -- Chapter 5. Introduction; Magisterium is concerned with question of evolution for it involves conception of man; William Dembski and John Haught spar on intelligent design; Darwin under the microscope; Obscurantism to the rescue -- Chapter 6. Introduction; The Roles of Mutation, Inbreeding, Crossbreeding and Selection in Evolution; Letter to G.F. Ferris; Letter to John Greene -- Chapter 7. Introduction; The origin of life -- Chapter 8. Introduction; From Charles Darwin's notebooks; From The origin of species; From The descent of man; Lucy: the beginnings of humankind -- Chapter 9. Introduction; Sociobiology-another biological determinism; Academic vigilantism and the political significance of sociobiology -- Chapter 10. Introduction; The evolutionary development of natural Science; Moral philosophy as applied science -- Chapter 11. Introduction; Forty years a philosopher of biology: Why evo devo makes me still excited about my subject; The generation of novelty: the province of developmental biology; Bare-knuckle fighting: evo devo versus natural selection; Why pigs don't have wings; Letters in Response to "Why pigs don't have wings"; The Boatman Poem -- Chapter 12. Introduction; The episodic nature of evolutionary change; Did Darwin get it right? | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Part 4: Biographies: Louis Agassiz -- Michael Behe -- Friedrich von Bernhardi -- William Jennings Bryan -- Edward Drinker Cope -- Georges Cuvier -- Martin Daly -- Clarence Darrow -- Erasmus Darwin -- Nicholas Davies -- Richard Dawkins -- William Dembski -- Daniel Dennett -- Theodosius Dobzhansky -- Ronald Fisher -- Jerry Fodor -- Brian Goodwin -- Stephen Jay Gould -- Peter and Rosemary Grant -- Asa Gray -- Ernst Haeckel -- John Burdon Sanderson Haldane -- William D. Hamilton -- Charles Hodge -- Joseph Dalton Hooker -- Sarah Blaffer Hrdy -- Julian Huxley -- Thomas Henry Huxley -- Phillip Johnson -- Stuart Kauffman -- Prince Petr Kropotkin -- Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck -- Richard Lewontin -- Konrad Lorenz -- Charles Lyell -- Trofim Lysenko -- Thomas Robert Malthus -- Lynn Margulis -- Othniel Charles Marsh -- Ernst Mayr -- Gregor Mendel -- Henry Morris -- Simon Conway Morris -- Hermann J. Muller -- John Henry Newman -- Alexander Oparin -- Richard Owen -- Archdeacon William Paley -- Geoffrey Parker -- Louis Pasteur -- Alvin Plantinga -- Felix Pouchet -- Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire -- John J. Sepkoski Jr. -- George Gaylord Simpson -- John Maynard Smith -- Herbert Spencer -- George Ledyard Stebbins -- Chris Stringer -- D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson -- Alfred Russel Wallace -- Samuel Wilberforce -- Edward O. Wilson -- Margo Wilson -- Milford Wolpoff -- Sewall Wright. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Part 5: Appendices -- References -- Chronology -- Glossary -- Illustration and document credits and permissions -- About the author. | |
| 520 | |a This edition draws on history, science, and philosophy to examine the development of evolutionary thought through the past two and a half centuries. | ||
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