One Long Argument - Charles Darwin & the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought (Cobee) (Paper) (Questions of Science): Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought: 2 [Reprint ed.] 0674639065, 9780674639065

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Table of contents :
COVER
Preface
Contents
Illustrations
Chapter 1 Who Is Darwin
Chapter 2 Confronting the Creationists: The First Darwinian Revolution
Chapter 3 How Species Originate
Chapter 4 Ideological Opposition to Darwin’s Five Theories
Chapter 5 The Struggle against Physicists and Philosophers
Chapter 6 Darwin’s Path to the Theory of Natural Selection
Chapter 7 What Is Darwinism?
Chapter 8 A Hard Look at Soft Inheritance: Neo-Darwinism
Chapter 9 Geneticists and Naturalists Reach a Consensus: The Second Darwinian Revolution
Chapter 10 New Frontiers in Evolutionary Biology
References
Illustrations
Glossary
Acknowledgments
Index

One Long Argument - Charles Darwin & the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought (Cobee) (Paper) (Questions of Science): Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern Evolutionary Thought: 2 [Reprint ed.]
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