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Darwin

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ISBN-10: 0393958493

ISBN-13: 9780393958492

Edition: 3rd 2001 (Revised)

Authors: Philip Appleman, Philip Appleman

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"The best Darwin anthology on the market" (Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard) has just become better, in this newly revised version of the now classic Norton Critical Edition, first published in 1970.
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List price: $22.53
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/19/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 720
Size: 0.56" wide x 0.93" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Philip Appleman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, where he was a founding editor of Victorian Studies. He is the author of a book on overpopulation, The Silent Explosion and coeditor of 1859: Entering an Age of Crisis. He has also published three novels and several volumes of poetry.

Preface
Introduction
Darwin: On Changing the Mind (2000)
Darwin's Life
Who Is Darwin? (1991)
Scientific Thought: Just before Darwin
Biology before the Beagle (1964)
An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798)
Natural Theology (1802)
Zoological Philosophy (1809)
Principles of Geology (1830-33)
The Study of Natural Philosophy (1830)
Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology (1833)
On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type (1858)
Selections from Darwin's Work
The Voyage of the Beagle (1845)
St. Jago--Cape de Verd Islands
Galapagos Archipelago
On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties; and On the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection (1858)
Extract from an unpublished Work on Species, by C. Darwin, Esq.
Abstract of a 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
Variation under Domestication
Variation under Nature
Struggle for Existence
Natural Selection
Difficulties on Theory
On the Imperfections of the Geological Record
Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs
Recapitulation and Conclusion
The Descent of Man (1871)
Introduction
The Evidence of the Descent of Man from Some Lower Form
On the Manner of Development of Man from Some Lower Form
Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals
On the Affinities and Genealogy of Man
Principles of Sexual Selection
Secondary Sexual Characters of Man
Secondary Sexual Characters of Man--continued
General Summary and Conclusion
Darwin's Influence on Science
The Victorian Opposition to Darwin
Darwin and His Critics (1983)
Objections to Mr. Darwin's Theory of the Origin of Species (1860)
Darwin on the Origin of Species (1860)
Review of the Origin of Species (1867)
Victorian Supporters of Darwin
Flora Tasmaniae (1859)
On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals (1863)
Principles of Geology (1867)
The Debt of Science to Darwin (1883)
Darwin and the Shaping of Modern Science
Scientific Method in Evolution
Evolution and the Nature of Science (1999)
Explaining the Very Improbable (1987)
On the Uncertainty of Science (1980)
Postmodernisms and the Problem of Scientific Literacy (1998)
Science and Sensibility (1999)
The Neo-Darwinian Synthesis
The Evolutionary Synthesis (1984)
The Human Genealogy
The Chosen Primate (1994)
Out of Africa Again ... and Again? (1997)
The Human Difference (1999)
Punctuated Equilibrium
[On Punctuated Equilibrium] (1991)
The Great Stasis Debate (1995)
Rethinking Taxonomy
Darwin's Views of Classification (1999)
Cladistic Analysis (1988)
[Cladistics in Action: The Origin of Birds and Their Flight] (1998)
Evolution as Observable Fact
How Natural Selection Operates (1996)
Natural Selection and Darwin's Finches (1991)
Natural Selection in the Wild (1986)
Darwinian Patterns in Social Thought
Competition and Cooperation
The Vogue of Spencer (1955)
The Gospel of Wealth (1900)
Mutual Aid (1902)
The Arithmetics of Mutual Help (1995)
Nature and Nurture
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975)
Biological Potentiality vs. Biological Determinism (1977)
The New Creationism: Biology under Attack (1997)
Evolution and Gender
The Woman's Bible (1898)
On Becoming Human (1981)
Darwin and the Descent of Woman (1983)
Woman Red in Tooth and Claw (1989)
Evolution and Other Disciplines
[On Consilience] (1998)
Evolution and the Origins of Disease (1998)
How the Mind Works (1997)
The Set within the Skull (1997)
Darwinian Influences in Philosophy and Ethics
The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy (1909)
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Natural Selection as an Algorithmic Process (1995)
Darwinian Epistemology (1998)
Evolution and Ethics (1893)
Evolutionary Ethics (1943)
The Evolution of Ethics (1985)
Good Natured: The Origin of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals (1996)
The Origins of Virtue (1997)
Evolutionary Theory and Religious Theory
Mainstream Religious Support for Evolution
Message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (1996)
On Creationism in School Textbooks (1984)
Evolution and Creationism (1982)
[Statement on Evolution] (1965)
Resolution on Evolutionism and Creationism (1982)
Resolution Opposing "Scientific Creationism" (1982)
Fundamentalist Creationism
Antievolution and Creationism in the United States (1997)
The Scopes Trial (1925)
Orthodox Jewish Creationists (2000)
[Islamic Creationism] (1997)
[A Hare Krishna on Darwinian Evolution] (1977)
Tenets of Creationism (1998)
Scientific Creationism (1985)
Review of Morris (1992)
Evolution at the Grass Roots (1998)
[Creationism versus Biotechnology] (1998)
[The Politics of Creationism] (1998)
What Do Christians Really Believe about Evolution? (1998)
Seven Significant Court Decisions Regarding Evolution/Creation Issues (1998)
Personal Incredulity and Antievolutionism
[The Argument from Personal Incredulity] (1987)
Darwin on Trial (1991)
Review of Johnson (1992)
Darwin's Black Box (1996)
Review of Behe (1997)
Darwin's New Critics on Trial (1998)
Scientists' Opposition to Creationism
Forced Teaching of Creationist Beliefs in Public School Science Education (1982)
Resolution Opposing Creationism in Science Courses (1999)
Statement on Teaching Evolution (1998)
Frequently Asked Questions about Evolution and the Nature of Science (1998)
Fundamentalist Creationism and the Value of Satire
Genesis Revisited: A Scientific Creation Story (1998)
Darwin's Ark (1984)
Darwin and the Literary Mind
Darwin's Literary Sensibility
Autobiography (1876)
Darwin's Humane Reading (1982)
Darwin and Pain: Why Science Made Shakespeare Nauseating (1995)
Darwin's Plots (1983)
Darwin's Influence on Literature
Darwin among the Poets (1932)
Darwin among the Novelists (1988)
The Tragic Fallacy (1929)
Modern Tragedy (1956)
Darwin-Sightings in Recent Literature (2000)
Selected Readings
Index