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Darwin

Overview

  • Part I: Introduction
  • Philip Appleman, Darwin: On Changing the Mind (2000)
  • Part II: Darwin’s Life
  • Ernst Mayr, Who Is Darwin? (1991)
  • Part III: Scientific Thought: Just before Darwin
  • Sir Gavin de Beer, Biology before the Beagle (1964)
  • Thomas Robert Malthus, An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)
  • William Paley, Natural Theology (1802)
  • Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Lamarck, Zoological Philisophy (1809)
  • Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology (1830–33)
  • John Herschell, The Study of Natural Philosophy (1830)
  • William Whewell, Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology (1833)
  • Alfred Russel Wallace, On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type (1858)
  • Part IV: Selections from Darwin’s Work
  • The Voyage of the Beagle (1845)
    • Chapter I. St. Jago-Cape de Verd Island
    • Chapter XVII. Galapagos Archipelago
  • On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties; and On the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection (1858)
    • I. Extract from an unpublished Work on Species, by C. Darwin, Esq. . . .
    • II. Abstract of Letter from C. Darwin, Esq., to Prof. Asa Gray, Boston, U.S., dated Down, September 5th, 1857
  • An Historical Sketch of the Progress of Opinion on the Origin of Species, previously to the : Publication of This Work (1861) The Origin of Species (1859)
    • Introduction
    • Chapter I. Variation under Domestication
    • Chapter II. Variation under Nature
    • Chapter III. Struggle for Existence
    • Chapter IV. Natural Selection
    • Chapter VI. Difficulties on Theory
    • Chapter IX. On the Imperfections of the Geological Record
    • Chapter XIII. Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs
    • Chapter XIV. Recapitulation and Conclusion
  • The Descent of Man (1871)
    • Introduction
    • Chapter I. The Evidence of the Descent of Man from Some Lower Form
    • Chapter II. On the Manner of Development of Man from Some Lower Form
    • Chapter III. Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals
    • Chapter VI. On the Affinities and Genealogy of Man
    • Chapter VIII. Principles of Sexual Selection
    • Chapter XIX. Secondary Sexual Characters of Man
    • Chapter XX. Secondary Sexual Characters of Man-continued
    • Chapter XXI. General Summary and Conclusion
  • Part V: Darwin’s Influence on Science
  • THE VICTORIAN OPPOSITION TO DARWIN
    • David L. Hull, Darwin and His Critics (1983)
    • Adam Sedgwick, Objections to Mr. Darwin’s Theory of the Origin of Species (1860)
    • Sir Richard Owen, Darwin on the Origin of Species (1860)
    • Fleeming Jenkin, Review of the Origin of Species
  • VICTORIAN SUPPORTERS OF DARWIN
    • Joseph Dalton Hooker, Flora Tasmaniae (1859)
    • Thomas Henry Huxley, On the Relations of Man to the Lowe Animals (1863)
    • Charles Lyell, Principles of Geology (1867)
    • Alfred Russel Wallace, The Debt of Science to Darwin (1883)
  • DARWIN AND THE SHAPING OF MODERN SCIENCE
    • Scientific Method in Evolution
    • National Academy of Sciences, Evolution and the Nature of Science (1999)
    • Richard Dawkins, Explaining the Very Improbable (1987)
    • Lewis Thomas, On the Uncertainty of Science (1980)
    • Noretta Koetge, Postmodernisms and the Problem of Scientific Literary (1998)
    • Richard Dawkins, Science and Sensibility (1999)
    • The Neo-Darwinian Synthesis
    • Peter Bowler, The Evolutionary Synthesis (1984)
    • The Human Genealogy
    • Adam Kuper, The Chosen Primate (1994)
    • Ian Tattersall, Out of Africa Again . . . and Again? (1997)
    • Stephen Jay Gould, The Human Difference (1999)
    • Punctuated Equilibrium
    • Stephen Jay Gould, [On Punctuated Equilibrium] (1991)
    • Niles Eldredge, The Great Stasis Debate (1995)
    • Rethinking Taxonomy
    • Kevin Padian, Darwin’s Views of Classification (1999)
    • David L. Hull, Cladistic Analysis (1988)
    • Kevin Padian and Luis M. Chiappe, Cladistics in Action: The Origin of Birds and Their Flight (1998)
    • Evolution as Observable Fact
    • James L. Gould and William T. Keeton with Carol Grant Gould, How Natural Selection Operates (1996)
    • Peter r. Grant, Natural Selection and Darwin’s Finches (1991)
    • John A. Endler, Natural Selection in the Wild (1986)
  • Part VI: Darwinian Patterns in Social Thought
  • COMPETITION AND COOPERATION
    • Richard Hofstadter, The Vogue of Spencer (1955)
    • Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth (1900)
    • Peter Kropotkin, Mutual Aid (1902)
    • Martin A. Nowak, Robert M. May, and Karl Sigmund, The Arithmetics of Mutual Help (1995)
  • NATURE AND NURTURE
    • Edward O. Wilson, Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975)
    • Stephen Jay Gould, Biological Potentiality vs. Biological Determination (1977)
    • Barbara Ehrenreich and Janet McIntosh, The New Creationism: Biology under Attack (1997)
  • EVOLUTION AND GENDER
    • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, The Woman’s Bible (1898)
    • Nancy Makepeace Tanner, On Becoming Human (1981)
    • Evelleen Richards, Darwin and the Descent of Woman (1983)
    • James Eli Adams, Woman Red in Tooth and Claw (1989)
  • EVOLUTION AND OTHER DISCIPLINES
    • Edward O. Wilson, [On Consilience] (1998)
    • Randolph H. Nesse and George C. Williams, Evolution and the Origin of Disease (1998)
    • Steven Pinker, How the Mind Works (1997)
    • Steve Jones, The Set within the Skull (1997)
  • Part VII: Darwinian Influences in Philosophy and Ethics
  • John Dewey, The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy (1909)
  • Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Natural Selection as an Algorithmic Process (1995)
  • Michael Ruse Darwinian Epistemology (1998)
  • Thomas Henry Huxley, Evolution and Ethics (1983)
  • Julian Huxley, Evolutionary Ethics (1843)
  • Michael Ruse and Edward O. Wilson, The Evolution of Ethics (1985)
  • Frans de Waal, Good Natured: The Origin of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals (1996)
  • Matt Ridley, The Origins of Virtue (1997)
  • Part VIII: Evolutionary Theory and Religious Theory
  • MAINSTREAM RELIGIOUS SUPPORT FOR EVOLUTION
    • Pope John Paul II, Message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (1996)
    • Central Conference of American Rabbis, On Creationism in School Textbooks (1984)
    • United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., Evolution and Creationsim (1982)
    • The Lutheran World Federation, [Statement on Evolution] (1965)
    • The General Convention of the Episcopal Church, Resolution on Evolutionism and Creationism (1982)
    • Unitariuan Universalist Association, Resolution Opposing "Scientific Creationism" (1982)
  • FUNDAMENTALIST CREATIONISM
    • Eugene C. Scott, Antievolution and Creationism in the United States (1997)
    • The Scopes Trial (1925)
    • Thomas McIver, Orthodox Jewish Creationists (2000)
    • Harun Yahya, [Islamic Creationism] (1997)
    • Seami Srila Prabhupada, [A Hare Krishna on Darwinian Evolution] (1977)
    • Institute for Creation Research, Tenets of Creationism (1998)
    • Henry M. Morris, Scientific Creationism (1985)
    • Thomas J. Wheeler, Review of Morris (1992)
    • Richard D. Sjolund and Betty McCollister, Evolution at the Grass Roots (1998)
    • Richard D. Sjolund, [Creationism versus Biotechnology] (1998)
    • Betty McCollister, [The Politics of Creationism] (1998)
    • Molleen Matsumara, What Do Christians Really Believe about Evolution? (1998)
    • National Center for Science Education, Seven Significant Court Decisions Regarding Evolution/Creation Issues (1997)
  • PERSONAL INCREDULITY AND ANTIEVOLUTIONISM
    • Richard Dawkins, [The Argument from Personal Incredulity] (1987)
    • Phillip E. Johnson, Darwin on Trial (1991)
    • Eugenie C. Scott, Review of Johnson (1992)
    • Michael Behe, Darwin’s Black Box (1996)
    • Robert Dorit, Review of Behe (1997)
    • Michael Ruse, Darwin’s New Critics on Trial (1998)
  • SCIENTISTS’ OPPOSITION TO CREATIONISM
    • American Association for the Advancement of Science, Forced Teaching of Creationist Beliefs in Public School Science Education (1982)
    • American Institute of Biological Sciences, Resolution Oposing Creationism in Science Courses (1999)
    • National Association of Biology Teachers, Statement on Teaching Evolution (1998)
    • National Academy of Sciences, Frequently Asked Questions about Evolution and the Nature of Science (1998)
  • FUNDAMENTALIST CREATIONISM AND THE VALUE OF SATIRE
    • Michael Shermer, Genesis Revisted: A Scientific Creation Story (1998)
    • Philip Appleman, Darwin’s Ark (1984)
  • Part IX: Darwin and the Literary Mind
  • DARWIN’S LITERARY SENSIBILITY
    • Charles Darwin, Autobiography (1876)
    • L. Robert Stevens, Darwin’s Humane Reading (1982)
    • George Levine, Darwin and Pain: Why Science Made Shakespeare Nauseating (1995)
    • Gillian Beer, Darwin’s Plots (1983)
  • DARWIN’S INFLUENCE ON LITERATURE
    • Lionel Stevenson, Darwin among the Poets (1932)
    • George Levine, Darwin among the Novelists (1988)
    • Joseph Wood Krutch, The Tragic Fallacy (1929)
    • Herbert J. Muller, Modern Tragedy (1956)
    • Philip Appleman, Darwin-Sightings in Recent Literature (2000)

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