Darwinian heresies /

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Imprint:Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Description:viii, 200 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5365082
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Other authors / contributors:Lustig, Abigail, 1958-
Richards, Robert J. (Robert John), 1942-
Ruse, Michael.
ISBN:0521815169
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Russian theoretical biology between heresy and orthodoxy: Georgii Shaposhinikov and his experiments on plant lice
  • 2. The spectre of Darwinism: the popular image of Darwinism in early twentieth-century
  • 3. Natural theology
  • 4. Ironic heresy: how young-earth creationists came to embrace rapid microevolution by means of natural selection
  • 5. If this be heresy: Haeckel's conversion to Darwinism
  • 6. Adaptive landscapes and dynamic equilibrium: the Spencerian contribution to twentieth-century, American, evolutionary biology
  • 7. 'The ninth moral sin': the Lamarckism of
  • 8. Contemporary Darwinism and religion