"This guide provides teachers in major disciplines with a gold mine of information to get the big picture."
-VOYA

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-ARBA

"The text is interesting and readable for the nonscientist, while maintaining a scholarly style. Students in advanced placement natural and social science courses will find this book interesting and useful in the study of evolution."
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"...an engaging, thought-provoking, and witty analysis of the history of evolutionary thought ... The evolution controversies are themselves fascinating subjects, and Ruse makes them much more understandable by placing them in the historical, social, religious, and even personal contexts of their times ... A must read for students of evolution and the philosophy of science, but also for anyone interested in a fascinating history of a most radical and continuing change in scientific thought that (like it or not) permeates all of biology and society today."
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Evolution Wars:
A Guide to the Debates

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Pub. Date: December 2008
Softcover: 750 pages
ISBN: 1-59237-288-0/978-1-59237-288-1
Price: $165.00
EBook ISBN: 978-1-59237-299-7 EBook Vendors

This update of The Evolution Wars draws on history, science, and philosophy to examine the development of evolutionary thought through the past two and a half centuries, along with the rise of “creation science” and its role in public schools curricula as a subject on par with evolution.

To further aid the reader, informative Chapter Introductions and Overviews outline the contents of each chapter. Additional material includes a Historical Timeless, Biographies of Prominent Scientists, Primary Documents and a Glossary for added understanding.

Topics examined in this new edition:

• A History of Evolution
• Early Evolutionists in the Debate: The Birth of the Idea
• Conflict Before, During and After The Origin of the Species: The Legacy of Charles Darwin
• Darwinism Explodes onto the Victorian State: Evolution as Religion
• Darwinism in America: The New World
• Evolution Denied & Extolled: The Rise of Creationism, Intelligent Design & Darwinism Religion in America
• Evolution Matures
• Darwinism & Genetics: A New Frontier Opens
• Life: The Early Years
• Two New Sciences at War: Placing Ancestors in Time
• Human Sociobiology: Genetic Determinism
• Philosophy: Evolution & Thinking About Knowledge & Morality
• Evolutionary Development: Minimizing Natural Selection
• New Evolutionary Theories: Thickening the Plot of Natural Selection

With two and a half centuries of evolutionary thought, in one all-inclusive volume, this thought-provoking encyclopedia is a much-needed resource in public libraries, and university collections.

Pub. Date: December 2008
Softcover: 750 pages
ISBN: 1-59237-288-0/978-1-59237-288-1
Price: $165.00
EBook ISBN: 978-1-59237-229-7 EBook Vendors

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