The Evolution Wars: A Guide to the Debates

by Michael Ruse

Book Overview

The Evolution Wars draws on history, science, and philosophy to examine the development of evolutionary thought through the past two and a half centuries. It focuses on the debates that have engaged, divided, and ultimately provoked scientists to ponder the origins of organisms--including humankind--paying regard to the nineteenth-century clash over the nature of classification and debates about the fossil record, genetics, and human nature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813530369
• ISBN13: 9780813530369
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.9"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher