Darwinism Defended (Addison-Wesley Series in Electrical Engineering)

I. Darwinism Yesterday : 1. Charles Darwin Becomes An Evolutionist : The Organic Origins Problem And The Lamarckian Solution ; The Uniformitarians And Catastrophists ; Charles Darwin: English Gentleman ; Charles Darwin: Professional Scientist ; Darwin's Route To Discovery ; Darwin And Religion ; Darwin Waits -- 2. On The Origin Of Species : Artificial Selection ; Natural Selection ; Difficulties And Applications ; More Applications ; Darwin's Theory Examined: Methodological Background ; Darwin's Theory Examined: The Analogy ; Darwin's Theory Examined: Natural Selection ; Darwin's Theory Examined: The Application ; Retrospect -- Ii. Darwinism Today : 3. The Coming Of Mendelian Genetics : Mendelian Genetics ; The Hardy-weinberg Law ; Models Of Change ; Balancing Selection: Superior Heterozygote Fitness ; Two Controversies -- 4. The Evidence For Population Genetics : The Mendelian Background ; Experimental Evidence ; The Evidence From Nature ; The Formation Of Species ; Molecular Biology And The Classical/balance Dispute ; Conclusion -- 5. Neo-darwinism: The Total Picture : Darwin's Finches ; Paleontology ; Darwinism As Metaphysics ; Darwinism As Genuine Science ; Is Natural Selection A Tautology? ; Darwinism's Rivals ; Darwinism Evaluated -- Iii. Darwinism Tomorrow? : 6. The Origin Of Life : Ultimate Origins ; Spontaneous Generation ; Chemical Evolution ; Life's Early History: The Outline ; Life's Early History: Details -- 7. Population Ecology : Population Ecology ; Population Ecology Meets Population Genetics ; Density Dependent Selection 8. Animal Sociobiology : Darwin And The Level Of Selection ; The Neglect Of Behavior ; The Sociobiology Of Aggression ; The Sociobiology Of Sex ; The Sociobiology Of The Family ; Prospects -- 9. The Challenge From Paleontology : The Fossil Record And Evolutionary Theory ; The Challenge To Darwinism ; Phyletic Gradualism Versus Punctuated Equilibrism ; Revolution Or Assimilation? -- Iv. Darwinism And Humankind : 10. Missing Links : Going The Whole Orang ; Wallace And Darwin On Human Evolution ; The Path Of Human Evolution ; Why Did Humans Evolve? ; We Come Of Age -- 11. Human Sociobiology : The Biology In Society ; The Question Of Evidence: The Broad Claims ; The Question Of Evidence: Sexuality ; The Question Of Evidence: Incest Barriers ; Limits -- 12. Evolution And Morality : Evolutionary Ethics ; Why Evolutionary Ethics Is Wrong ; The Evolution Of Ethics And Ethical Relativism ; Does Darwinism Imply Ethical Relativism? ; The Ideology Of Evolutionism ; Why Human Sociobiology Is Not Morally Pernicious ; Conclusion: The Ideology Of Darwinism -- V. Darwinism Besieged : 13. Creationism Expounded : Creationism: American Style ; Scientific Creationism ; Scientific Creationism Continued -- 14. Creationism Considered : Models, Causes, Purposes ; Origins, Probabilities, Homologies, Fossils ; Floods, Time, Man ; Equal Time? ; Why Creationism Should Not Be Taught: Religion ; Why Creationism Should Not Be Taught: Morality ; Why Creationism Should Not Be Taught: Knowledge ; Fight On!. Michael Ruse ; Foreword By Ernst Mayr. Includes Indexes. Bibliography: P. 339-347.