Debating Darwin / Robert J. Richards and Michael Ruse.
By: Richards, Robert J. (Robert John) [author.].
Contributor(s): Ruse, Michael [author.].
Publisher: Chicago : The University of Chicago, 2016Description: pages ; cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780226384429 (cloth : alk. paper).Subject(s): Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 | Evolution (Biology)Genre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Charles Darwin: great Briton. Prologue ; Britain before Darwin ; A child of his class ; Evolution and natural selection ; On the origin of species ; Humans ; Envoi -- Charles Darwin: cosmopolitan thinker. Introduction ; Sketch of Darwin's life and works ; Literature of significance for Darwin: romanticism and natural theology ; The romantic foundations of Darwin's theory ; Darwin's scientific theology ; Darwin's construction of his theory ; Man, the moral animal ; Conclusion -- Response to Ruse. The language of metaphor ; Teleology ; Evolutionary development as progressive ; Individual versus group selection ; The evolution of morality ; Conclusion -- Reply to Richards. Levels of selection ; Embryology ; The romantic influence ; Alexander von Humboldt ; Paradise lost -- Epilogue -- History of evolutionary biology since the origin of species -- Human consciousness -- Religion and god.