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DARWINIAN HERESIES

Edited by: Abigail Lustig, Robert J. Richards, and Michael Ruse

(From book jacket)
Darwinian Heresies looks at the history of evolutionary thought, breaking
through much of the conventional thinking to see whether there are
assumptions or theories that are blinding us to important issues. The
collection, which includes some of today's leading historians and
philosophers of science, digs beneath the surface and shows that not all is
precisely as it is too often assumed to be. Covering a wide range of issues
starting back in the eighteenth century, Darwinian Heresies brings us up
through the time of Charles Darwin and the Origin all the way to the
twenty-first century. It is suggested that Darwin's true roots lie in
Germany, not in his native England; that Russian evolutionism is more
significant than many are prepared to allow; and that the main influence on
twentieth-century evolutionary biology was not Charles Darwin at all but
his often-despised contemporary, Herbert Spencer. The collection is
guaranteed to interest, to excite, to infuriate, and to stimulate further work.

CONTENTS

List of Contributors
Page vii

1 Introduction: Biologists on Crusade
Abigail Lustig
Page 1

2 Russian Theoretical Biology between Heresy and Orthodoxy: Georgii
Shaposhinikov and His Experiments on Plant Lice
Daniel Alexandrov and Elena Aronova
Page 14

3 The Specter of Darwinism: The Popular Image of Darwinism in Early
Twentieth-Century Britain
Peter J. Bowler
Page 48

4 Natural Atheology
Abigail Lustig
Page 69

5 Ironic Heresy: How Young-Earth Creationists Came to Embrace Rapid
Microevolution by Means of Natural Selection
Ronald L. Numbers
Page 84

6 If This Be Heresy Haeckel's Conversion to Darwinism
Robert J. Richards
Page 101

7 Adaptive Landscapes and Dynamic Equilibrium: The Spencerian Contribution
to Twentieth-Century American Evolutionary Biology
Michael Ruse
Page 131

8 Ôø‡Ôø‡The Ninth Mortal SinÔø‡Ôø‡: The Lamarckism of W. M. Wheeler
Charlotte Sleigh
Page 151

9 Contemporary Darwinism and Religion
Mikael Stenmark
Page 173

Index
Page 193


ABOUT THE EDITORS

(from book jacket)
Abigail Lustig is a postdoctoral Fellow at the Dibner Institute for the
History of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology. She has previously held fellowships at the Max Planck Institute
for the History of Science, Berlin; the Secrétariat National Recherche et
Sauvetage, Paris; and the Universitat AutÔø‡Ôø‡noma, Barcelona.

Robert J. Richards is Professor of History and Philosophy and director of
the Fishbein Center for History of Science at the University of Chicago. He
is the author of Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind
and Behavior (1987), The Meaning of Evolution (1992), and The Romantic
Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe (2002).

Michael Ruse is Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida
State University. He is the author of many books, including The Darwinian
Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw (1979), Monad to Man: The Concept
of Progress in Evolutionary Biology (1997), and Can a Darwinian Be a
Christian? The Relationship between Science and Religion (Cambridge
University Press, 2000).

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Posted Date: 10/13/04