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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 ...
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