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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought
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This volume is a comprehensive reference work on the life, labors and influence of the great evolutionist Charles Darwin. With more than sixty essays written by an international group representing the leading scholars in the field, this is the definitive work on Darwin. It covers the background to Darwin's discovery of the theory of evolution through natural selection, the work he produced and his contemporaries' reactions to it, and evaluates his influence on science in the 150 years since the publication of On the Origin of Species. It also explores the implications of Darwin's discoveries in religion, politics, gender, literature, culture, philosophy and medicine, critically evaluating Darwin's legacy. Fully illustrated and clearly written, it is suitable for scholars and students as well as the general reader. The wealth of information it provides about the history of evolutionary thought makes it a crucial resource for understanding the controversies that surround evolution today.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought
- Title
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- Essay 1 Origins and the Greeks
- Essay 2 Evolution before Darwin
- Essay 3 Charles Darwinâs Geology:
- Essay 4 Looking Back with âGreat Satisfactionâ on Charles Darwinâs Vertebrate Paleontology
- Essay 5 The Origins of the Origin:
- Essay 6 Darwin and Taxonomy
- Essay 7 Darwin and the Barnacles
- Essay 8 The Analogy between Artificial and Natural Selection
- Essay 9 The Origin of Species
- Essay 10 Sexual Selection
- Essay 11 Darwin and Species
- Essay 12 Darwin and Heredity
- Essay 13 Darwin and Time
- Essay 14 Darwinâs Evolutionary Botany
- Essay 15 Mimicry and Camouflage
- Essay 16 Chance and Design
- Essay 17 Darwin and Teleology
- Essay 18 The Evolution of the Origin (1859â1872)
- Essay 19 Alfred Russel Wallace
- Essay 20 Darwin and Humans
- Essay 21 Darwin and Language
- Essay 22 Darwin and Ethics
- Essay 23 Social Darwinism
- Essay 24 Darwin and the Levels of Selection
- Essay 25 Darwin and Religion
- Essay 26 Darwinism in Britain
- Essay 27 Darwinism in the United States, 1859â1930
- Essay 28 The German Reception of Darwinâs Theory, 1860â1945
- Essay 29 Darwin and Darwinism in France before 1900
- Essay 30 Encountering Darwin and Creating Darwinism in China
- Essay 31 Darwinism in Latin America
- Essay 32 Botany:
- Essay 33 Population Genetics
- Essay 34 Synthesis Period in Evolutionary Studies
- Essay 35 Ecological Genetics
- Essay 36 Darwin and Darwinism in France after 1900
- Essay 37 Botany and the Evolutionary Synthesis, 1920â1950
- Essay 38 The Emergence of Life on Earth and the Darwinian Revolution
- Essay 39 The Evolution of the Testing of Evolution
- Essay 40 Mimicry and Camouflage:
- Essay 41 The Tree of Life
- Essay 42 Sociobiology
- Essay 43 Evolutionary Paleontology
- Essay 44 Darwin and Geography
- Essay 45 Darwin and the Finches
- Essay 46 Developmental Evolution
- Essay 47 Darwinâs Evolutionary Ecology
- Essay 48 Darwin and the Environment
- Essay 49 Molecular Biology:
- Essay 50 Challenging Darwinism:
- Essay 51 Human Evolution after Darwin
- Essay 52 Language Evolution since Darwin
- Essay 53 Cultural Evolution
- Essay 54 Literature
- Essay 55 Darwin and Gender
- Essay 56 Evolutionary Epistemology
- Essay 57 Ethics after Darwin
- Essay 58 Darwin and Protestantism
- Essay 59 Creationism
- Essay 60 Darwin and Catholicism
- Essay 61 Judaism, .Jews, and Evolution
- Essay 62 Religion:
- Essay 63 From Evolution and Medicine to Evolutionary Medicine
- Bibliography
- Index