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Tables of Contents for Evolution
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of Illustrations
ix
Preface to the Third Edition
xi
Preface to the First Edition
xv
The Idea of Evolution: Its Scope and Implications
1
26
The Old Worldview and the New
3
4
The Possibilities of Change
7
6
The Nature of Science
13
5
The Historian's Problems
18
9
The Pre-Evolutionary Worldview
27
21
Human History
29
2
Theories of the Earth
31
4
The Meaning of Fossils
35
3
Natural Theology
38
3
The New Natural History
41
4
The Problem of Generation
45
3
Evolution in the Enlightenment
48
48
Human Nature
50
4
The Origin of Society
54
3
The History of the Earth
57
5
The Chain of Being
62
4
The New Classification
66
5
The New Theories of Generation
71
10
The Materialists
81
3
The First Transmutationists
84
12
Nature and Society, 1800--1859
96
45
The Invention of Progress
99
7
The Framework of Science
106
2
Georges Cuvier: Fossils and the History of Life
108
7
Catastrophism and Natural Theology in Britain
115
5
The Philosophical Naturalists
120
6
Radical Science
126
3
The Principle of Uniformity
129
5
The Vestiges of Creation
134
7
The Development of Darwin's Theory
141
36
Darwin's Early Career
148
7
The Crucial Years: 1836--1839
155
9
Development of the Theory, 1840--1859
164
9
Wallace and Publication of the Theory
173
4
The Reception of Darwin's Theory
177
47
The Foundations of Darwinism
180
8
The Scientific Debate
188
14
Darwinism and Design
202
5
Human Origins
207
9
Evolution and Progress
216
8
The Eclipse of Darwinism: Scientific Evolutionism, 1875--1925
224
50
Reconstructing the History of Life
227
7
The Age of the Earth
234
2
Neo-Lamarckism
236
11
Orthogenesis
247
4
Neo-Darwinism
251
9
Mendelism and the Mutation Theory
260
14
Evolution, Society, and Culture, 1875--1925
274
51
The Missing Link
278
6
The Origins of Culture and Society
284
8
Evolution and Race
292
5
Social Evolutionism
297
10
Biological Determinism
307
8
Neo-Lamarckism and Society
315
2
Evolution and Philosophy
317
5
Evolution and Religion
322
3
The Evolutionary Synthesis
325
22
Population Genetics
327
6
The Modern Synthesis
333
6
The Origin of Life
339
1
Wider Implications of the Synthesis
340
7
Modern Debates and Developments
347
36
The History of Life
349
4
Human Origins
353
3
Sociobiology and Ultra-Darwinism
356
5
Opponents of Ultra-Darwinism
361
5
Anti-Darwinians
366
3
Darwinism not Scientific?
369
6
Creationism
375
8
Bibliography
383
68
Index
451