Debating Darwin
By: Robert J. Richards and Michael Ruse
Contributors: Ruse, Michael, author
Publisher: The University of Chicago
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9780226384429
Subjects: Evolution (Biology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Charles Darwin: great Briton / Michael Ruse. Prologue ; Britain before Darwin ; A child of his class ; Evolution and natural selection ; On the origin of species ; Humans ; Envoi; title: Charles Darwin: cosmopolitan thinker / Robert J. Richards. Introduction ; Sketch of Darwin's life and works ; Literature of significance for Darwin: romanticism and natural theology ; The romantic foundations of Darwin's theory ; Darwin's scientific theology ; Darwin's construction of his theory ; Man, the moral animal ; Conclusion; title: Response to Ruse. The language of metaphor ; Teleology ; Evolutionary development as progressive ; Individual versus group selection ; The evolution of morality ; Conclusion; title: Reply to Richards. Levels of selection ; Embryology ; The romantic influence ; Alexander von Humboldt ; Paradise lost; title: Epilogue. History of evolutionary biology since the Origin of species ; Human consciousness ; Religion and god.