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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
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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.