The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought

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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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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2013
Print ISBN
9780521195317
eBook ISBN
9781107302075
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy & Ethics in Science

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contributors
  6. Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Preface
  9. Introduction
  10. Essay 1 Origins and the Greeks
  11. Essay 2 Evolution before Darwin
  12. Essay 3 Charles Darwin’s Geology:
  13. Essay 4 Looking Back with “Great Satisfaction” on Charles Darwin’s Vertebrate Paleontology
  14. Essay 5 The Origins of the Origin:
  15. Essay 6 Darwin and Taxonomy
  16. Essay 7 Darwin and the Barnacles
  17. Essay 8 The Analogy between Artificial and Natural Selection
  18. Essay 9 The Origin of Species
  19. Essay 10 Sexual Selection
  20. Essay 11 Darwin and Species
  21. Essay 12 Darwin and Heredity
  22. Essay 13 Darwin and Time
  23. Essay 14 Darwin’s Evolutionary Botany
  24. Essay 15 Mimicry and Camouflage
  25. Essay 16 Chance and Design
  26. Essay 17 Darwin and Teleology
  27. Essay 18 The Evolution of the Origin (1859–1872)
  28. Essay 19 Alfred Russel Wallace
  29. Essay 20 Darwin and Humans
  30. Essay 21 Darwin and Language
  31. Essay 22 Darwin and Ethics
  32. Essay 23 Social Darwinism
  33. Essay 24 Darwin and the Levels of Selection
  34. Essay 25 Darwin and Religion
  35. Essay 26 Darwinism in Britain
  36. Essay 27 Darwinism in the United States, 1859–1930
  37. Essay 28 The German Reception of Darwin’s Theory, 1860–1945
  38. Essay 29 Darwin and Darwinism in France before 1900
  39. Essay 30 Encountering Darwin and Creating Darwinism in China
  40. Essay 31 Darwinism in Latin America
  41. Essay 32 Botany:
  42. Essay 33 Population Genetics
  43. Essay 34 Synthesis Period in Evolutionary Studies
  44. Essay 35 Ecological Genetics
  45. Essay 36 Darwin and Darwinism in France after 1900
  46. Essay 37 Botany and the Evolutionary Synthesis, 1920–1950
  47. Essay 38 The Emergence of Life on Earth and the Darwinian Revolution
  48. Essay 39 The Evolution of the Testing of Evolution
  49. Essay 40 Mimicry and Camouflage:
  50. Essay 41 The Tree of Life
  51. Essay 42 Sociobiology
  52. Essay 43 Evolutionary Paleontology
  53. Essay 44 Darwin and Geography
  54. Essay 45 Darwin and the Finches
  55. Essay 46 Developmental Evolution
  56. Essay 47 Darwin’s Evolutionary Ecology
  57. Essay 48 Darwin and the Environment
  58. Essay 49 Molecular Biology:
  59. Essay 50 Challenging Darwinism:
  60. Essay 51 Human Evolution after Darwin
  61. Essay 52 Language Evolution since Darwin
  62. Essay 53 Cultural Evolution
  63. Essay 54 Literature
  64. Essay 55 Darwin and Gender
  65. Essay 56 Evolutionary Epistemology
  66. Essay 57 Ethics after Darwin
  67. Essay 58 Darwin and Protestantism
  68. Essay 59 Creationism
  69. Essay 60 Darwin and Catholicism
  70. Essay 61 Judaism, .Jews, and Evolution
  71. Essay 62 Religion:
  72. Essay 63 From Evolution and Medicine to Evolutionary Medicine
  73. Bibliography
  74. Index

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