Defining Darwin · Essays on the History and Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology by Ruse, Michael -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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CONTENTS PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS PART I: DARWIN'S GREAT WORK ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES

NATURAL SELECTION THE CONSILIENCE PERSPECTIVE FROM TODAY NOTES

PART II: THE EARLY YEARS KANT AND EVOLUTION

KANT ON ORGANISMS KANT ON EVOLUTION

OPUS POSTUMUM

GEORGES CUVIER AGAINST EVOLUTION CONCLUSION NOTES

DARWINISM AND MECHANISM

NATURE IS A MACHINE DARWIN ON MECHANISM NATURE AS MACHINE AND NATURE AS CONTRIVANCE EVOLUTION AFTER DARWIN CONCLUSION NOTES

KICKING AGAINST THE PRICKS

MID-VICTORIAN THINKING ON THE NATURE OF SCIENCE CHARLES DARWIN AND EVOLUTION VICTORIAN JONAH WALLACE AND HIS ENTHUSIASMS WALLACE THE EVOLUTIONIST HUMANS ENVOI NOTES

PART III: THE MIDDLE YEARS ADAPTIVE LANDSCAPES AND DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM

COMPARING DARWIN AND SPENCER SOCIAL DARWINISM THE SHIFTING BALANCE THEORY AND ITS DISCONTENTS NATURAL SELECTION OR DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIUM? SOURCES CONCLUSION NOTES

JULIAN HURLEY AND GEORGE GAYLORD SIMPSON ON EVOLUTION AND ETHICS

JULIAN SORREL HUXLEY (1887-1975) EVOLUTIONARY HUMANISM CRITICAL RESPONSE GEORGE GAYLORD SIMPSON (1902-1984) SIMPSON'S METAETHICS CONCLUSION NOTES

EVOLUTION AND THE NOVEL

IN MEMORIAM DARWIN OR SPENCER?

ENDURING LOVE

EVOLUTIONARY THEMES DETERMINISM POSTSCRIPT NOTES

PART IV THE LATER YEARS EVO - DEVO

FORM AND FUNCTION FUNCTION ACROSS THE EVOLUTIONARY DIVIDE FORM ACROSS THE EVOLUTIONARY DIVIDE CONSTRAINT GENETIC CONSTRAINTS DEVELOPMENTAL CONSTRAINTS FUNCTIONALISTS STRIKE BACK STRUCTURAL CONSTRAINTS PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS CONCLUSION NOTES

DARWINISM EXPLAINS RELIGION (?)

DARWIN ON RELIGION RELIGION AS ADAPTIVE GROUPS AND MEMES AS UNITS OF SELECTION RELIGION AS BY-PRODUCT SERIOUS SCIENCE? GOD? CONCLUSION NOTES

EVOLUTION AS RELIGION

BEFORE THE ORIGIN CHARLES DARWIN AND THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES THE DARWINIAN EVANGELIST THE SYNTHETIC THEORY THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY RICHARD DAWKINS ENVOI NOTES

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