The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought

Michael Ruse is Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science at Florida State University. He is the author of twenty books and the founding editor of Biology and Philosophy.

Preface; Introduction; 1. Ancient Greece Jeremy Kirby; 2. Evolution before Darwin Michael Ruse; 3. Darwin, geology David Norman; 4. Paleontology, evidence Paul Brinkman; 5. Darwin, the route to discovery Jon Hodge; 6. Darwin and taxonomy Mary P. Winsor; 7. Darwin and the barnacles Marsha Richmond; 8. Artificial selection and natural selection Bert Theunissen; 9. The Origin of Species Michael Ruse; 10. Sexual selection Richard Richards; 11. Darwin and species James Mallet; 12. Darwin and heredity Robert Olby; 13. Time Keith Bennett; 14. Darwin and flowers Rich Bellon; 15. Early mimicry and adaptation William Kimler and Michael Ruse; 16. Chance John Beatty; 17. Teleology Jim Lennox; 18. Six editions of origin Thierry Hoquet; 19. Alf Wallace John van Wyhe; 20. Darwin and humans Greg Radick; 21. Language Stephen G. Alter; 22. Darwin and morality Eric Charmetant; 23. Social Darwinism Naomi Beck; 24. Darwin and the levels of selection Brian Hollis, Dan Deen and Chris Zarpentine; 25. Darwin and religion Mark Pallen and Alison Pearn; 26. Post-Darwin: United Kingdom Peter Bowler; 27. Post-Darwin: America Mark Largent; 28. Post-Darwin: Germany Bob Richards; 29. Post-Darwin: France to 1900 Jean Gayon; 30. Post-Darwin: China Haiyan Yang; 31. Post-Darwin: South America Thomas F. Glick; 32. Botany, early history Dawn Digrius; 33. Population genetics Michael Ruse; 34. Synthetic theory Joe Cain; 35. Ecological genetics David Rudge; 36. Post-Darwin: France post 1900 Jean Gayon; 37. Botany, later history Betty Smocovitis; 38. Origin of life Iris Fry; 39. Testing Steve Orzack; 40. Mimicry and camouflage Joe Travis; 41. Tree of life Joel Velasco; 42. Sociobiology Mark Borrello; 43. Paleontology, interpretations David Sepkoski; 44. Darwin and geography David Livingstone; 45. Darwin and the finches Fritz Davis; 46. Evo devo Manfred Laubichler and Jane Maienschein; 47. Evolutionary ecology Jack Justus; 48. Environment David Steffes; 49. Darwin and molecular biology Francisco Ayala; 50. Darwinian expansions David Depew and Bruce Weber; 51. Paleoanthropology Jesse Richmond; 52. Language today Barbara J. King; 53. Cultural evolution Ken Reisman; 54. Literature Gowan Dawson; 55. Gender Georgina Montgomery; 56. Philosophy-epistemology Tim Lewens; 57. Philosophy-ethics Richard Joyce; 58. Religion, Protestantism Diarmid Finnegan; 59. Creationism history Ron Numbers; 60. Religion, Catholicism John Haught; 61. Religion, Jewish Marc Swetlitz; 62. Religion, Islam Martin Riexinger; 63. Medicine Tatjana Buklijas and Peter Gluckman.