Evolution
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Evolution

The History of an Idea, 25th Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface

  1. 496 pages
  2. English
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  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Evolution

The History of an Idea, 25th Anniversary Edition, With a New Preface

About this book

Since its original publication in 1989, Evolution: The History of an Idea has been recognized as a comprehensive and authoritative source on the development and impact of this most controversial of scientific theories. This twentieth anniversary edition is updated with a new preface examining recent scholarship and trends within the study of evolution.


Since its original publication in 1989, Evolution: The History of an Idea has been recognized as a comprehensive and authoritative source on the development and impact of this most controversial of scientific theories. This twentieth anniversary ed

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Illustrations
  6. Preface to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
  7. Preface to the First Edition
  8. 1. The Idea of Evolution
  9. THE OLD WORLDVIEW AND THE NEW
  10. THE POSSIBILITIES OF CHANGE
  11. THE NATURE OF SCIENCE
  12. THE HISTORIAN'S PROBLEMS
  13. 2 The Pre-evolutionary Worldview
  14. HUMAN HISTORY
  15. THEORIES OF THE EARTH
  16. THE MEANING OF FOSSILS
  17. NATURAL THEOLOGY
  18. THE NEW NATURAL HISTORY
  19. THE PROBLEM OF GENERATION
  20. 3 Evolution in the Enlightenment
  21. HUMAN NATURE
  22. THE ORIGIN OF SOCIETY
  23. THE HISTORY OF THE EARTH
  24. THE CHAIN OF BEING
  25. THE NEW CLASSIFICATION
  26. THE NEW THEORIES OF GENERATION
  27. THE MATERIALISTS
  28. THE FIRST TRANSMUTATIONISTS
  29. 4 Nature and Society, 1800-1859
  30. THE INVENTION OF PROGRESS
  31. THE FRAMEWORK OF SCIENCE
  32. GEORGES CUVIER: FOSSILS AND THE HISTORY OF LIFE
  33. CATASTROPHISM AND NATURAL THEOLOGY IN BRITAIN
  34. THE PHILOSOPHICAL NATURALISTS
  35. RADICAL SCIENCE
  36. THE PRINCIPLE OF UNIFORMITY
  37. THE VESTIGES OF CREATION
  38. 5 The Development of Darwin’s Theory
  39. DARWIN’S EARLY CAREER
  40. THE CRUCIAL YEARS: 1836-1839
  41. DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEORY, 1840-1859
  42. WALLACE AND PUBLICATION OF THE THEORY
  43. THE FOUNDATIONS OF DARWINISM
  44. THE SCIENTIFIC DEBATE
  45. DARWINISM AND DESIGN
  46. HUMAN ORIGINS
  47. EVOLUTION AND PROGRESS
  48. 7 The Eclipse of Darwinism
  49. RECONSTRUCTING THE HISTORY OF LIFE
  50. THE AGE OF THE EARTH
  51. NEO-LAMARCKISM
  52. ORTHOGENESIS
  53. NEO-DARWINISM
  54. MENDELISM AND THE MUTATION THEORY
  55. 8 Evolution, Society, and Culture, 1875-1925
  56. THE MISSING LINK
  57. THE ORIGINS OF CULTURE AND SOCIETY
  58. EVOLUTION AND RACE
  59. SOCIAL EVOLUTIONISM
  60. BIOLOGICAL DETERMINISM
  61. NEO-LAMARCKISM AND SOCIETY
  62. EVOLUTION AND PHILOSOPHY
  63. EVOLUTION AND RELIGION
  64. 9 The Evolutionary Synthesis
  65. POPULATION GENETICS
  66. THE MODERN SYNTHESIS
  67. THE ORIGIN OF LIFE
  68. WIDER IMPLICATIONS OF THE SYNTHESIS
  69. 10 Modern Debates and Developments
  70. THE HISTORY OF LIFE
  71. HUMAN ORIGINS
  72. SOCIOBIOLOGY AND ULTRA-DARWINISM
  73. OPPONENTS OF ULTRA-DARWINISM
  74. ANTI-DARWINIANS
  75. DARWINISM NOT SCIENTIFIC?
  76. CREATIONISM
  77. Bibliography
  78. Index