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ordered by best selling| The Philosophy of Human Evolution (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy and Biology) | |||
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Author(s) : Michael Ruse | ||
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| Brief This book provides a unique discussion of human evolution from a philosophical viewpoint, looking at the facts and interpretations since Charles Darwin's The Descent of Man. Michael Ruse explores such topics as the nature of scientific theories, the relationships between culture and biology, the pro...Read More |
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| Controlling Human Heredity (Control of Nature) | |||
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Author(s) : Diane B. Paul | ||
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| Brief In the late nineteenth and the early twentieth century, it was widely assumed that society ought to foster the breeding of those who possessed favourable traits and discourage the breeding of those who did not. Controlled human breeding, 'eugenics' as it was labelled by Francis Galton, seemed only g...Read More |
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| The Evolution Wars: A Guide to the Debates | |||
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Author(s) : Michael Ruse | ||
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| Brief The Evolution Wars draws on history, science, and philosophy to examine the development of evolutionary thought through the past two and a half centuries. It focuses on the debates that have engaged, divided, and ultimately provoked scientists to ponder the origins of life--including humankind--payi...Read More |
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| Evolutionary Theory & Victorian Culture (Control of Nature) | |||
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Author(s) : Martin Fichman | ||
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| Brief Although Charles Darwin was a central figure in the 19th-century development of evolutionary theory, we often tend to overlook the crucial role played by other leading thinkers of the time. For example, Alfred Russel Wallace independently arrived at nearly identical conclusions as Darwin on the orig...Read More |
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| Intelligent Design: William A. Dembski & Michael Ruse in Dialogue | |||
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| Brief The subject of intelligent design has been much in the news in recent months but is often treated in a piecemeal fashion or one-sidedly. This volume highlights points of agreement and disagreement between two leading intellectuals on the subject: William A. Dembski, senior fellow with Discov...Read More |
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| Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology | |||
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Author(s) : Oren Harman, Michael Dietrich, William Dritschilo, Bruce Weber, Vinciane Despret, David Sepkoski, Mark Borrello, Nathaniel Comfort, James F. Crow, Philip V. Tobias, Prof. Daniel Kevles, Raphael Falk, Tim Horder, David Hull, R. C. Lewontin, John Prebble, Michael Ruse | ||
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| Brief This book is the first devoted to modern biology’s innovators and iconoclasts: men and women who challenged prevailing notions in their fields. Some of these scientists were Nobel Prize winners, some were considered cranks or gadflies, some were in fact wrong. The stories of these stubborn dissent...Read More |
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| The "Origin" Then and Now: An Interpretive Guide to the "Origin of Species" | |||
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Author(s) : David N. Reznick | ||
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| Brief Charles Darwin's Origin of Species is one of the most widely cited books in modern science. Yet tackling this classic can be daunting for students and general readers alike because of Darwin's Victorian prose and the complexity and scope of his ideas. The "Origin" Then and Now is a uni...Read More |
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| The Paleobiological Revolution: Essays on the Growth of Modern Paleontology | |||
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| Brief Paleontology has long had a troubled relationship with evolutionary biology. Suffering from a reputation as a second-tier science and conjuring images of fossil collectors and amateurs who dig up bones, paleontology was marginalized even by Darwin himself, who worried that incompleteness in the fos...Read More |
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| Defining Darwin: Essays on the History and Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology | |||
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Author(s) : Michael Ruse | ||
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| Brief Michael Ruse is one of the foremost Charles Darwin scholars of our time. For forty years he has written extensively on Darwin, the scientific revolution that his work precipitated, and the nature and implications of evolutionary thinking for today. Now, in the year marking the two hundredth annivers...Read More |
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| The Evolution-Creation Struggle | |||
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Author(s) : Michael Ruse | ||
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| Brief Creation versus evolution: What seems like a cultural crisis of our day, played out in courtrooms and classrooms across the county, is in fact part of a larger story reaching back through the centuries. The views of both evolutionists and creationists originated as inventions of the Enlightenment--t...Read More |
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