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• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
• Preface to the First Edition
• 1. The Idea of Evolution
• THE OLD WORLDVIEW AND THE NEW
• THE POSSIBILITIES OF CHANGE
• THE NATURE OF SCIENCE
• THE HISTORIAN’S PROBLEMS
• 2 The Pre-evolutionary Worldview
• HUMAN HISTORY
• THEORIES OF THE EARTH
• THE MEANING OF FOSSILS
• NATURAL THEOLOGY
• THE NEW NATURAL HISTORY
• THE PROBLEM OF GENERATION
• 3 Evolution in the Enlightenment
• HUMAN NATURE
• THE ORIGIN OF SOCIETY
• THE HISTORY OF THE EARTH
• THE CHAIN OF BEING
• THE NEW CLASSIFICATION
• THE NEW THEORIES OF GENERATION
• THE MATERIALISTS
• THE FIRST TRANSMUTATIONISTS
• 4 Nature and Society, 1800-1859
• THE INVENTION OF PROGRESS
• THE FRAMEWORK OF SCIENCE
• GEORGES CUVIER: FOSSILS AND THE HISTORY OF LIFE
• CATASTROPHISM AND NATURAL THEOLOGY IN BRITAIN
• THE PHILOSOPHICAL NATURALISTS
• RADICAL SCIENCE
• THE PRINCIPLE OF UNIFORMITY
• THE VESTIGES OF CREATION
• 5 The Development of Darwin’s Theory
• DARWIN’S EARLY CAREER
• THE CRUCIAL YEARS: 1836-1839
• DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEORY, 1840-1859
• WALLACE AND PUBLICATION OF THE THEORY
• THE FOUNDATIONS OF DARWINISM
• THE SCIENTIFIC DEBATE
• DARWINISM AND DESIGN
• HUMAN ORIGINS
• EVOLUTION AND PROGRESS
• 7 The Eclipse of Darwinism
• RECONSTRUCTING THE HISTORY OF LIFE
• THE AGE OF THE EARTH
• NEO-LAMARCKISM
• ORTHOGENESIS
• NEO-DARWINISM
• MENDELISM AND THE MUTATION THEORY
• 8 Evolution, Society, and Culture, 1875-1925
• THE MISSING LINK
• THE ORIGINS OF CULTURE AND SOCIETY
• EVOLUTION AND RACE
• SOCIAL EVOLUTIONISM
• BIOLOGICAL DETERMINISM
• NEO-LAMARCKISM AND SOCIETY
• EVOLUTION AND PHILOSOPHY
• EVOLUTION AND RELIGION
• 9 The Evolutionary Synthesis
• POPULATION GENETICS
• THE MODERN SYNTHESIS
• THE ORIGIN OF LIFE
• WIDER IMPLICATIONS OF THE SYNTHESIS
• 10 Modern Debates and Developments
• THE HISTORY OF LIFE
• HUMAN ORIGINS
• SOCIOBIOLOGY AND ULTRA-DARWINISM
• OPPONENTS OF ULTRA-DARWINISM
• ANTI-DARWINIANS
• DARWINISM NOT SCIENTIFIC?
• CREATIONISM
• Bibliography
• Index