Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-284) and index.
Contents:
Darwinism in our time -- Darwin's mistake -- Darwin's curia at the centenary -- Common descent : fact or theory? -- Natural selection : a closer look -- What is the evidence for natural selection? -- On extinction -- Is variation indefinite or limited? -- Homology and its possible causes -- The conundrum of convergence -- The fossil record -- Evolution and systematics at the American Museum -- Intelligent design and information theory -- Darwin and the philosophy of materialism -- DNA : God is in the details -- Lenski's evolving bacteria -- The sociobiology wars -- Human exceptionalism and its enemies -- The search for artificial intelligence -- Biogeography and Darwin's theology -- The rise and fall of progress.
Summary:
Bethell investigates controversies over common descent, natural selection, the fossil record, biogeography, information theory, evolutionary psychology, artificial intelligence, and the growing intelligent design movement.-- source other than Library of Congress.
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