Includes bibliographical references (p.[355]-428) and index.
Contents:
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.
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