The Evolution Wars
Subtitle: a guide to the debates
Publisher: Grey House Publishing
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Millerton, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781592372881
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. History of evolution.; title: Early evolutionists in the debate : the birth of an idea; title: Conflict before, during and after The origin of species : the legacy of Charles Darwin; title: Darwinism explodes onto the Victorian stage : evolution as religion; title: Darwin in America : the new world; title: Evolution denied & extolled : the rise of Creationism, intelligent design & Darwinian religion in America; title: pt. 2. Evolution matures.; title: Darwinism and genetics : a new frontier opens; title: Life : the early years; title: Two new sciences at war : placing ancestors in time; title: Human sociobiology : genetic determinism; title: Philosophy : evolution & thinking about knowledge & morality; title: Evolutionary development : minimizing natural selection; title: New evolutionary theories : thickening the plot of natural selection --; title: pt. 3. Documents.; title: Zoological philosophy / J.B. Lamarck; title: Theory of the earth / G. Cuvier; title: In memoriam / A. Tennyson; title: On the variation of organic beings in a state of nature ; Abstract of a letter from Charles Darwin to Professor Asa Gray / Charles Darwin; title: From the reception of the "Origin of species" ; From the life and letters of Thomas Huxley / T.H. Huxley; title: Studies, scientific and social / A.R. Wallace; title: Individualism, socialism and humanism / Karl Pearson; title: From preface to mutual aid / Petr Kropotkin; title: Right to make war / Friedrich von Bernhardi; title: Perceptions in science : is evolution a secular religion? / Michael Ruse; title: Darwiniana / A. Gray; title: Letter to Asa Gray / Charles Darwin; title: From the challenge of facts / William Graham Sumner; title: From the gospel of wealth / Andrew Carnegie; title: Law of club and fang / Jack London; title: Earth speaks to Bryan / H.F. Osborn; title: Magisterium is concerned with question of evolution for it involves conception of man / Pope John Paul II; title: William Dembski and John Haught spar on intelligent design / Rebecca Flietstra; title: Darwin under the microscope / Michael J. Behe; title: Obscurantism to the rescue ; Viruses of the mind / Richard Dawkins; title: Roles of mutation, inbreeding, crossbreeding and selection in evolution / Sewall Wright; title: Letter to G.F. Ferris / E. Mayr; title: Letter to John Greene / Theodosius Dobzhansky; title: Origin of life / J.B.S. Haldane; title: Origin of life--a review of facts and speculations / Leslie E. Orgel; title: From Charles Darwin's notebooks ; From The origin of species ; From The descent of man; title: Lucy : the beginnings of humankind / Donald Johanson & Maitland Edey; title: Sociobiology--another biological determinism / Sociobiology Study Group of Science for the People; title: Academic vigilantism and the political significance of sociobiology / Edward O. Wilson; title: Evolutionary development of natural science / Stephen E. Toulmin; title: Moral philosophy as applied science / Michael Ruse and Edward O. Wilson; title: Forty years a philosopher of biology / Michael Ruse; title: Generation of novelty / Scott F. Gilbert; title: Bare-knuckle fighting / Michael Ruse; title: Why pigs don't have wings / Jerry Fodor; title: Letters in response to "Why pigs don't have wings" / Simon Blackburn ... [et al.]; title: Boatman poem / Colin Boatman; title: Episodic nature of evolutionary change / S.J. Gould; title: Did Darwin get it right? / John Maynard Smith; title: pt. 4. Biographies.