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Confuting Darwinism's enemies-and false friends too.(Darwinism and Its Discontents. )(Book review)
Darwinism and Its Discontents. Michael Ruse. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2006. 316 pp. $30.00 (ISBN 9780521829472 cloth).
Referring to the aura of mystery surrounding the ancient Etruscans and their supposedly indecipherable language, D. H. Lawrence once wrote, "I don't think there is any other field of human knowledge in which there is such a daft cleavage between what has been scientifically ascertained and the unshakeable beliefs of the public" (quoted in Robert Hughes, Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir [New York: Knopf, 2006], p. 246). Lawrence must not have known about evolutionary biology--or was unaware of the gap between his own daft view of it and ...
- Darwinism Comes to America.
- Magazine article from: Church History Conser, Walter H. Jr. September 1, 1999 700+ words
Darwinism Comes to America. By...Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. xiv + 216 pp...about the reception of Darwinism in America and a need...scientific responses to Darwinism, Numbers develops an...
- Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender.
- Magazine article from: Church History Mauskopf, Seymour June 1, 2001 700+ words
Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place...New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xii + 300 pp...about the reception of Darwinism by the English scientific...world. In Disseminating Darwinism, a group of historians...
- Social Darwinism in European and American Thought: 1860-1945, Nature as Model...
- Magazine article from: American Political Science Review Johnson, Gary R. December 1, 1998 700+ words
...Hawkins. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 344p. $69.95...State University "Social Darwinism" is a moral and political...Hawkins's book, Social Darwinism in European and American...Hawkins says that Social Darwinism is not a discrete ideology...
- Granofsky, Ronald. D.H. Lawrence and Survival: Darwinism in the Fiction of the...
- Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel Clarke, Bruce September 22, 2005 700+ words
...Lawrence and Survival: Darwinism in the Fiction of the Transitional...Ithaca: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003. xii + 212 pp...intellectual phenomenon called Darwinism. To this cluster of significant...Granofsky's gesture to bring "Darwinism" into the critical discussion...
- Richardson, John. Nietzsche's New Darwinism.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics Lampert, Laurence September 1, 2006 700+ words
...John. Nietzsche's New Darwinism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xxii + 288 pp...fundamentally a critic of Darwin and Darwinism; it demonstrates that Nietzsche...recognizing Nietzsche's basic Darwinism can one appreciate the true...
- Darwinism Comes to America.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History Ruse, Michael August 1, 1999 700+ words
Darwinism Comes to America, by...Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1998. 216 pp. $39...indeed, his new work, Darwinism Comes to America, lives...Numbers's discussion of Darwinism and America -- one which...
- Digital Darwinism.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Latin Trade Alende, Andres Hernandez October 1, 1999 700+ words
...constant reference to economic or social Darwinism. The opening of markets, privatization...Schwartz does not focus on economic Darwinism from an ethical perspective, but rather...The Brazil Reader, published by Duke University Press, and written by Robert M. Levin...
- Sparks of Life: Darwinism and the Victorian Debates over Spontaneous...
- Magazine article from: Albion Secord, James A. March 22, 2002 700+ words
...Strick. Sparks of Life: Darwinism and the Victorian Debates over...Generation. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 2000. Pp. xi, 283...century history of science: Darwinism, the rise of laboratory science...
