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The Evolution Wars : A Guide to the Debates /
Draws on history, science, and philosophy to examine the development of evolutionary thought through the past two and a half centuries. Focuses on the great debates, including the 19th century clash over the nature of classification and debates about the fossil record, genetics, and human nature.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Brunswick, New Jersey :
Rutgers University Press,
2001.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / Edward O. Wilson
- Monad to man: the birth of an idea
- Mystery of mysteries: the legacy of Charles Darwin
- Modified monkeys: evolution as religion
- The New world: Darwin in America
- Cold war warriors: Dawin and genetics
- In the beginning: the origin of life
- "Going the whole orang": human origins
- Genetic determinism? human sociobiolgy arrives
- Challenges to orthodoxy: alternatives to Darwinism
- Ultimate questions: science and religion
- Epilogue.