The evolution wars: a guide to the debates

pt. 1. A history of evolution

Early evolutionists in the debate : the birth of an idea

Conflict before, during and after The origin of species : the legacy of Charles Darwin

Darwinism explodes onto the Victorian stage : evolution as religion

Darwin in America : the new world

Evolution denied & extolled : the rise of Creationism, intelligent design & Darwinian religion in America

pt. 2. Evolution matures

Darwinism and 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

pt. 3. Documents

Zoological philosophy / J.B. Lamarck

Theory of the earth / G. Cuvier

In memoriam / A. Tennyson

On the variation of organic beings in a state of nature ; Abstract of a letter from Charles Darwin to Professor Asa Gray / Charles Darwin

From the reception of the "Origin of species" ; From the life and letters of Thomas Huxley / T.H. Huxley

Studies, scientific and social / A.R. Wallace

Individualism, socialism and humanism / Karl Pearson

From preface to mutual aid / Petr Kropotkin

The right to make war / Friedrich von Bernhardi

Perceptions in science : is evolution a secular religion? / Michael Ruse

Darwiniana / A. Gray

Letter to Asa Gray / Charles Darwin

From the challenge of facts / William Graham Sumner

From the gospel of wealth / Andrew Carnegie

The law of club and fang / Jack London

The earth speaks to Bryan / H.F. Osborn

Magisterium is concerned with question of evolution for it involves conception of man / Pope John Paul II

William Dembski and John Haught spar on intelligent design / Rebecca Flietstra

Darwin under the microscope / Michael J. Behe

Obscurantism to the rescue ; Viruses of the mind / Richard Dawkins

The roles of mutation, inbreeding, crossbreeding and selection in evolution / Sewall Wright

Letter to G.F. Ferris / E. Mayr

Letter to John Greene / Theodosius Dobzhansky

The origin of life / J.B.S. Haldane

The origin of life

a review of facts and speculations /

Leslie E. Orgel

From Charles Darwin's notebooks ; From The origin of species ; From The descent of man

Lucy : the beginnings of humankind / Donald Johanson & Maitland Edey

Sociobiology

another biological determinism /

Sociobiology Study Group of Science for the People

Academic vigilantism and the political significance of sociobiology / Edward O. Wilson

The evolutionary development of natural science / Stephen E. Toulmin

Moral philosophy as applied science / Michael Ruse and Edward O. Wilson

Forty years a philosopher of biology / Michael Ruse

The generation of novelty / Scott F. Gilbert

Bare-knuckle fighting / Michael Ruse

Why pigs don't have wings / Jerry Fodor

Letters in response to "Why pigs don't have wings" / Simon Blackburn ... [et al.]

The boatman poem / Colin Boatman

The episodic nature of evolutionary change / S.J. Gould

Did Darwin get it right? / John Maynard Smith

pt. 4. Biographies.

Monad to man: the birth of the idea

Mystery of mysteries: the legacy of Charles Darwin

Modified monkeys: evolution as religion

The new world: Darwin in America

Cold war warriors: Darwinism and genetics

In the beginning: the origin of life

"Going the whole orang": human origins

Genetic determinism? Human sociobiology arrives

Challenges to orthodoxy: alternatives to Darwinism

Ultimate questions: science and religion.