Darwinian heresies

Abstract

List of Contributors page vii1 Introduction: Biologists on Crusade 1Abigail Lustig 2 Russian Theoretical Biology between Heresy and Orthodoxy: Georgii Shaposhinikov and His Experiments on Plant Lice 14Daniel Alexandrov and Elena Aronova 3 The Specter of Darwinism: The Popular Image of Darwinism in Early Twentieth-Century Britain 48Peter J. Bowler 4 Natural Atheology 69Abigail Lustig 5 Ironic Heresy: How Young-Earth Creationists Came to Embrace Rapid Microevolution by Means of Natural Selection 84Ronald L. Numbers 6 If This Be Heresy: Haeckel's Conversion to Darwinism 101Robert J. Richards 7 Adaptive Landscapes and Dynamic Equilibrium: The Spencerian Contribution to Twentieth-Century American Evolutionary Biology 131Michael Ruse 8 ``The Ninth Mortal Sin'': The Lamarckism of W. M. Wheeler 151Charlotte Sleigh 9 Contemporary Darwinism and Religion 173Mikael Stenmark Index 193