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Darwin: A Norton Critical Edition / Edition 3
by Charles Darwin, Philip Appleman
Charles Darwin
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- 12/19/2000
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- Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
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- ISBN-13:
- 9780393958492
- Pub. Date:
- 12/19/2000
- Publisher:
- Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
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"The best Darwin anthology on the market" (Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard) has just become better, in this newly revised version of the now classic Norton Critical Edition, first published in 1970.
The impact of Charles Darwin’s work on Western civilization has been broad and deep. As much as anyone in the modern era, he changed human thought, and his influence is still felt in virtually all aspects of our lives. This new edition, larger and more varied than the previous ones, includes more of Darwin's own work and also presents the most recent research and scholarship on all aspects of Darwin’s legacy. The biological sciences, as well as social thought, philosophy, ethics, religion, and literature, have all been shaped and reshaped by evolutionary concepts. Excerpts from the most important books and articles of recent years confirm this Darwinian heritage. New work by Richard Dawkins, Edward O. Wilson, Kevin Padian, Eugene C. Scott, Steven Pinker, Daniel Dennett, Michael Ruse, Frans de Waal, Noretta Koertge, George C. Williams, George Levine, Stephen Jay Gould, Gillian Beer, Ernst Mayr, and many others illuminates this exciting intellectual history. A wide-ranging new introduction by the editor provides context and coherence to this rich body of engaging material, much of which will be shaping human thought well into the new century. This edition will be useful to scientists and historians alike: "The Norton Darwin explains Darwinian evolution and illustrates the social and intellectual conflicts of the past two centuries better than any other book that I am aware of." (Charles Taylor, Professor of Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, University of California, Los Angeles) And it will be of great value to the humanities and social sciences as well: "The edition provides the sharpest and most exciting access to Darwin we have ever had. It shows all of us interested in the heart of our intellectual heritage how that heritage is sustained, manipulated, and honored." (James R. Kincaid, Aerol Arnold Professor of English, University of Southern California) A Selected Bibliography and an Index are included.Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780393958492 |
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Publisher: | Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc. |
Publication date: | 12/19/2000 |
Series: | Norton Critical Editions Series |
Edition description: | Third Edition |
Pages: | 720 |
Product dimensions: | 5.60(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d) |
Age Range: | 14 - 17 Years |
About the Author
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Naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-1882) is the father of evolution. His groundbreaking The Origin of Species argued that all species of life have descended over time from common ancestors, and proposed the scientific theory that this branching pattern of evolution resulted from a process that he called natural selection. As much as anyone in the modern era, Darwin has changed the course of human thought.
Philip Appleman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, where he was a founding editor of Victorian Studies. He is the author of a book on overpopulation, The Silent Explosion and coeditor of 1859: Entering an Age of Crisis. He has also published three novels and several volumes of poetry.
Philip Appleman is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University, where he was a founding editor of Victorian Studies. He is the author of a book on overpopulation, The Silent Explosion and coeditor of 1859: Entering an Age of Crisis. He has also published three novels and several volumes of poetry.
Date of Birth:
February 12, 1809Date of Death:
April 19, 1882Place of Birth:
Shrewsbury, EnglandPlace of Death:
London, EnglandEducation:
B.A. in Theology, Christ¿s College, Cambridge University, 1831Table of Contents
Preface | xv | |
Part I | Introduction | 1 |
Darwin: On Changing the Mind (2000) | 3 | |
Part II | Darwin's Life | 21 |
Who Is Darwin? (1991) | 23 | |
Part III | Scientific Thought: Just before Darwin | 31 |
Biology before the Beagle (1964) | 33 | |
An Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) | 39 | |
Natural Theology (1802) | 41 | |
Zoological Philosophy (1809) | 44 | |
Principles of Geology (1830-33) | 49 | |
The Study of Natural Philosophy (1830) | 52 | |
Astronomy and General Physics Considered with Reference to Natural Theology (1833) | 57 | |
On the Tendency of Varieties to Depart Indefinitely from the Original Type (1858) | 61 | |
Part IV | Selections from Darwin's Work | 65 |
The Voyage of the Beagle (1845) | 67 | |
Chapter I. | St. Jago--Cape de Verd Islands | 67 |
Chapter XVII. | Galapagos Archipelago | 67 |
On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties; and On the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection (1858) | 82 | |
I. | Extract from an unpublished Work on Species, by C. Darwin, Esq. | 82 |
II. | Abstract of a Letter from C. Darwin, Esq., to Prof. Asa Gray, Boston, U.S., dated Down, September 5th, 1857 | 85 |
An Historical Sketch of the Progress of Opinion on the Origin of Species, previously to the Publication of This Work (1861) | 87 | |
The Origin of Species (1859) | 95 | |
Introduction | 95 | |
Chapter I. | Variation under Domestication | 98 |
Chapter II. | Variation under Nature | 106 |
Chapter III. | Struggle for Existence | 107 |
Chapter IV. | Natural Selection | 111 |
Chapter VI. | Difficulties on Theory | 135 |
Chapter IX. | On the Imperfections of the Geological Record | 147 |
Chapter XIII. | Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs | 151 |
Chapter XIV. | Recapitulation and Conclusion | 158 |
The Descent of Man (1871) | 175 | |
Introduction | 175 | |
Chapter I. | The Evidence of the Descent of Man from Some Lower Form | 177 |
Chapter II. | On the Manner of Development of Man from Some Lower Form | 194 |
Chapter III. | Comparison of the Mental Powers of Man and the Lower Animals | 213 |
Chapter VI. | On the Affinities and Genealogy of Man | 222 |
Chapter VIII. | Principles of Sexual Selection | 230 |
Chapter XIX. | Secondary Sexual Characters of Man | 232 |
Chapter XX. | Secondary Sexual Characters of Man--continued | 239 |
Chapter XXI. | General Summary and Conclusion | 243 |
Part V | Darwin's Influence on Science | 255 |
The Victorian Opposition to Darwin | 257 | |
Darwin and His Critics (1983) | 257 | |
Objections to Mr. Darwin's Theory of the Origin of Species (1860) | 265 | |
Darwin on the Origin of Species (1860) | 267 | |
Review of the Origin of Species (1867) | 271 | |
Victorian Supporters of Darwin | 276 | |
Flora Tasmaniae (1859) | 276 | |
On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals (1863) | 280 | |
Principles of Geology (1867) | 285 | |
The Debt of Science to Darwin (1883) | 287 | |
Darwin and the Shaping of Modern Science | 289 | |
Scientific Method in Evolution | 289 | |
Evolution and the Nature of Science (1999) | 289 | |
Explaining the Very Improbable (1987) | 301 | |
On the Uncertainty of Science (1980) | 304 | |
Postmodernisms and the Problem of Scientific Literacy (1998) | 308 | |
Science and Sensibility (1999) | 314 | |
The Neo-Darwinian Synthesis | 319 | |
The Evolutionary Synthesis (1984) | 319 | |
The Human Genealogy | 326 | |
The Chosen Primate (1994) | 326 | |
Out of Africa Again ... and Again? (1997) | 335 | |
The Human Difference (1999) | 342 | |
Punctuated Equilibrium | 344 | |
[On Punctuated Equilibrium] (1991) | 344 | |
The Great Stasis Debate (1995) | 349 | |
Rethinking Taxonomy | 356 | |
Darwin's Views of Classification (1999) | 356 | |
Cladistic Analysis (1988) | 361 | |
[Cladistics in Action: The Origin of Birds and Their Flight] (1998) | 363 | |
Evolution as Observable Fact | 373 | |
How Natural Selection Operates (1996) | 373 | |
Natural Selection and Darwin's Finches (1991) | 377 | |
Natural Selection in the Wild (1986) | 384 | |
Part VI | Darwinian Patterns in Social Thought | 387 |
Competition and Cooperation | 389 | |
The Vogue of Spencer (1955) | 389 | |
The Gospel of Wealth (1900) | 396 | |
Mutual Aid (1902) | 398 | |
The Arithmetics of Mutual Help (1995) | 403 | |
Nature and Nurture | 409 | |
Sociobiology: The New Synthesis (1975) | 409 | |
Biological Potentiality vs. Biological Determinism (1977) | 415 | |
The New Creationism: Biology under Attack (1997) | 420 | |
Evolution and Gender | 426 | |
The Woman's Bible (1898) | 426 | |
On Becoming Human (1981) | 427 | |
Darwin and the Descent of Woman (1983) | 436 | |
Woman Red in Tooth and Claw (1989) | 444 | |
Evolution and Other Disciplines | 450 | |
[On Consilience] (1998) | 450 | |
Evolution and the Origins of Disease (1998) | 459 | |
How the Mind Works (1997) | 465 | |
The Set within the Skull (1997) | 477 | |
Part VII | Darwinian Influences in Philosophy and Ethics | 481 |
The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy (1909) | 483 | |
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Natural Selection as an Algorithmic Process (1995) | 489 | |
Darwinian Epistemology (1998) | 493 | |
Evolution and Ethics (1893) | 501 | |
Evolutionary Ethics (1943) | 503 | |
The Evolution of Ethics (1985) | 507 | |
Good Natured: The Origin of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals (1996) | 511 | |
The Origins of Virtue (1997) | 517 | |
Part VIII | Evolutionary Theory and Religious Theory | 525 |
Mainstream Religious Support for Evolution | 527 | |
Message to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (1996) | 527 | |
On Creationism in School Textbooks (1984) | 529 | |
Evolution and Creationism (1982) | 529 | |
[Statement on Evolution] (1965) | 531 | |
Resolution on Evolutionism and Creationism (1982) | 532 | |
Resolution Opposing "Scientific Creationism" (1982) | 533 | |
Fundamentalist Creationism | 534 | |
Antievolution and Creationism in the United States (1997) | 534 | |
The Scopes Trial (1925) | 542 | |
Orthodox Jewish Creationists (2000) | 549 | |
[Islamic Creationism] (1997) | 551 | |
[A Hare Krishna on Darwinian Evolution] (1977) | 553 | |
Tenets of Creationism (1998) | 555 | |
Scientific Creationism (1985) | 557 | |
Review of Morris (1992) | 564 | |
Evolution at the Grass Roots (1998) | 569 | |
[Creationism versus Biotechnology] (1998) | 569 | |
[The Politics of Creationism] (1998) | 570 | |
What Do Christians Really Believe about Evolution? (1998) | 572 | |
Seven Significant Court Decisions Regarding Evolution/Creation Issues (1998) | 574 | |
Personal Incredulity and Antievolutionism | 577 | |
[The Argument from Personal Incredulity] (1987) | 577 | |
Darwin on Trial (1991) | 581 | |
Review of Johnson (1992) | 586 | |
Darwin's Black Box (1996) | 592 | |
Review of Behe (1997) | 601 | |
Darwin's New Critics on Trial (1998) | 605 | |
Scientists' Opposition to Creationism | 613 | |
Forced Teaching of Creationist Beliefs in Public School Science Education (1982) | 613 | |
Resolution Opposing Creationism in Science Courses (1999) | 614 | |
Statement on Teaching Evolution (1998) | 615 | |
Frequently Asked Questions about Evolution and the Nature of Science (1998) | 617 | |
Fundamentalist Creationism and the Value of Satire | 624 | |
Genesis Revisited: A Scientific Creation Story (1998) | 625 | |
Darwin's Ark (1984) | 627 | |
Part IX | Darwin and the Literary Mind | 631 |
Darwin's Literary Sensibility | 633 | |
Autobiography (1876) | 633 | |
Darwin's Humane Reading (1982) | 634 | |
Darwin and Pain: Why Science Made Shakespeare Nauseating (1995) | 639 | |
Darwin's Plots (1983) | 645 | |
Darwin's Influence on Literature | 653 | |
Darwin among the Poets (1932) | 653 | |
Darwin among the Novelists (1988) | 658 | |
The Tragic Fallacy (1929) | 664 | |
Modern Tragedy (1956) | 667 | |
Darwin-Sightings in Recent Literature (2000) | 670 | |
Selected Readings | 683 | |
Index | 689 |
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