The evolution wars : a guide to the debates /
Ruse, Michael,author.
Credo Reference (Firm),distributor.
The Evolution Wars 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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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Includes bibliographical references.
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 -- �Etienne 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.
The Evolution Wars 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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