Charles Darwin : the shaping of evolutionary thinking

Author(s)

• Workman, Lance

Bibliographic Information

Charles Darwin : the shaping of evolutionary thinking

Lance Workman

（Mind shapers）

Palgrave Macmillan, 2014

Other Title

Charles Darwin : shaper of evolutionary thinking

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book examines the history of thought surrounding the relationship between Darwinism and the behavioural sciences. Accessible and thought-provoking, it demonstrates how and why Darwinism remains both illuminating and controversial today.

Table of Contents

1. Who was Charles Darwin? 2. Darwin's Greatest Work 'On the Origin of Species' 3. Sex and Emotions: Darwin's Other Great Works 4. Darwin and Darwinism 5. Is Darwin dangerous? Objections and Rejections From the Social Sciences 6. Ultra-Darwinism: Sociobiology and the Selfish Gene 7. Evolutionary Psychology: Darwin's Science of Behaviour Realised? 8. Conclusions: Darwinism Today.

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Details

• NCID: BB15551803
• ISBN:
  • 9780230301542
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Basingstoke
• Pages/Volumes: x, 209 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • DC23 : 576.801
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
  • LCSH : Evolution (Biology) -- Philosophy
  • LCSH : Evolution (Biology) and the social sciences
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA87339931