- Format
- Book
- Published
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2010
- Contents
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The cultural authority of natural history in early modern europe / Peter Harrison
Biology, atheism, and politics in eighteenth-century France / Shirley A. Roe
Eighteenth-century uses of vitalism in constructing the human sciences / Peter Hanns Reill
Biology in the service of natural theology: Paley, Darwin, and the Bridgewater Treatises / Jonathan R. Topham
Race, empire, and biology before Darwinism / Sujit Sivasundaram
Darwin's choice / Nicolaas Rupke
Biology and the emergence of the Anglo-American eugenics movement / Edward J. Larson
Genetics, eugenics, and the holocaust / Paul Weindling
Darwinism, Marxism, and genetics in the Soviet Union: the dialectics of co-evolution / Nikolai Krementsov
Evolution and the idea of social progress / Michael Ruse
Beauty and the beast? : conceptualizing sex in evolutionary narratives / Erika Lorraine Milam
Creationism, intelligent design, and modern biology / Ronald L. Numbers
The ideological uses of evolutionary biology in recent atheist apologetics / Alister E. Mcgrath.
- Other Authors/Editors
- Alexander, Denis.
Numbers, Ronald L.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The cultural authority of natural history in early modern europe / Peter Harrison -- Biology, atheism, and politics in eighteenth-century France / Shirley A. Roe -- Eighteenth-century uses of vitalism in constructing the human sciences / Peter Hanns Reill -- Biology in the service of natural theology: Paley, Darwin, and the Bridgewater Treatises / Jonathan R. Topham -- Race, empire, and biology before Darwinism / Sujit Sivasundaram -- Darwin's choice / Nicolaas Rupke -- Biology and the emergence of the Anglo-American eugenics movement / Edward J. Larson -- Genetics, eugenics, and the holocaust / Paul Weindling -- Darwinism, Marxism, and genetics in the Soviet Union: the dialectics of co-evolution / Nikolai Krementsov -- Evolution and the idea of social progress / Michael Ruse -- Beauty and the beast? : conceptualizing sex in evolutionary narratives / Erika Lorraine Milam -- Creationism, intelligent design, and modern biology / Ronald L. Numbers -- The ideological uses of evolutionary biology in recent atheist apologetics / Alister E. Mcgrath.
