Darwinian heresies / edited by Abigail Lustig, Robert J. Richards, Michael Ruse.

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2004
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.

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viii, 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Biologists on Crusade / Abigail Lustig -- Russian theoretical biology between heresy and orthodoxy: Georgii Shaposhinikov and his experiments on plant lice / Elena Aronova and Daniel Alexandrov -- The spectre of Darwinism: the popular image of Darwinism in early twentieth-century Britain / Peter J. Bowler -- Natural theology / Abigail Lustig -- Ironic heresy: how young-earth creationists came to embrace rapid microevolution by means of natural selection / Ronald L. Numbers -- If this be heresy: Haeckel's conversion to Darwinism / Robert J. Richards -- Adaptive landscapes and dynamic equilibrium: the Spencerian contribution to twentieth-century, American, evolutionary biology / Michael Ruse -- 'The ninth moral sin': the Lamarckism of W. M. Wheeler / Charlotte Sleigh -- Contemporary Darwinism and religion / Mikael Stenmark.

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  • 0521815169