The evolution wars : a guide to the debates

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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ruse, Michael
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Millerton, NY : Grey House Pub., ©2009.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Evolution (Biology) > History.
Online Access: Full text (Emmanuel users only)
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1. A history of evolution
  • pt. 2. Evolution matures
  • pt. 3. Documents
  • pt. 4. Biographies
  • pt. 5. Appendices
  • pt. 6. Index.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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?
  • 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.
  • Part 5: Appendices
  • References
  • Chronology
  • Glossary
  • Illustration and document credits and permissions
  • About the author.

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