This volume is a comprehensive reference work on the life, labors, and influence of the great evolutionist Charles Darwin. The wealth of information it provides about the history of evolutionary thought makes it a crucial resource for understanding the controversies that surround evolution today.

Table of Contents

• About The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought
• Contributors
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 Origins and the Greeks - Jeremy Kirby
• 2 Evolution before Darwin - Michael Ruse
• 3 Charles Darwin’s Geology: The Root of His Philosophy of the Earth - David Norman
• 4 Looking Back with “Great Satisfaction” on Charles Darwin’s Vertebrate Paleontology - Paul D. Brinkman
• 5 The Origins of the Origin: Darwin’s First Thoughts about the Tree of Life and Natural Selection, 1837–1839 - Jonathan Hodge
• 6 Darwin and Taxonomy - Mary Pickard Winsor
• 7 Darwin and the Barnacles - Marsha L. Richmond
• 8 The Analogy between Artificial and Natural Selection - Bert Theunissen
• 9 The Origin of Species - Michael Ruse
• 10 Sexual Selection - Richard A. Richards
• 11 Darwin and Species - James Mallet
• 12 Darwin and Heredity - Robert Olby
• 13 Darwin and Time - Keith Bennett
• 14 Darwin’s Evolutionary Botany - Richard Bellon
• 15 Mimicry and Camouflage - William Kimler; Michael Ruse
• 16 Chance and Design - John Beatty
• 17 Darwin and Teleology - James G. Lennox
• 18 The Evolution of the Origin (1859–1872) - Thierry Hoquet
• 19 Alfred Russel Wallace - John van Wyhe
• 20 Darwin and Humans - Gregory Radick
• 21 Darwin and Language - Stephen G. Alter
• 22 Darwin and Ethics - Eric Charmetant
• 23 Social Darwinism - Naomi Beck
• 24 Darwin and the Levels of Selection - Daniel Deen; Brian Hollis; Chris Zarpentine
• 25 Darwin and Religion - Mark Pallen; Alison Pearn
• 26 Darwinism in Britain - Peter Bowler
• 27 Darwinism in the United States, 1859–1930 - Mark A. Largent
• 28 The German Reception of Darwin’s Theory, 1860–1945 - Robert J. Richards
• 29 Darwin and Darwinism in France before 1900 - Jean Gayon
• 30 Encountering Darwin and Creating Darwinism in China - Yang Haiyan
• 31 Darwinism in Latin America - Thomas F. Glick
• 32 Botany: 1880s to 1920s - Dawn Mooney Digrius
• 33 Population Genetics - Michael Ruse
• 34 Synthesis Period in Evolutionary Studies - Joe Cain
• 35 Ecological Genetics - David W. Rudge
• 36 Darwin and Darwinism in France after 1900 - Jean Gayon
• 37 Botany and the Evolutionary Synthesis, 1920–1950 - Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis
• 38 The Emergence of Life on Earth and the Darwinian Revolution - Iris Fry
• 39 The Evolution of the Testing of Evolution - Steven Hecht Orzack
• 40 Mimicry and Camouflage: Part Two - Joseph Travis
• 41 The Tree of Life - Joel D. Velasco
• 42 Sociobiology - Mark E. Borrello
• 43 Evolutionary Paleontology - David Sepkoski
• 44 Darwin and Geography - David N. Livingstone
• 45 Darwin and the Finches - Frederick Rowe Davis
• 46 Developmental Evolution - Manfred D. Laubichler; Jane Maienschein
• 47 Darwin’s Evolutionary Ecology - James Justus
• 48 Darwin and the Environment - David Steffes
• 49 Molecular Biology: Darwin’s Precious Gift - Francisco J. Ayala
• 50 Challenging Darwinism: Expanding, Extending, Replacing - David J. Depew; Bruce H. Weber
• 51 Human Evolution after Darwin - Jesse Richmond
• 52 Language Evolution since Darwin - Barbara J. King
• 53 Cultural Evolution - Kenneth Reisman
• 54 Literature - Gowan Dawson
• 55 Darwin and Gender - Georgina M. Montgomery
• 56 Evolutionary Epistemology - Tim Lewens
• 57 Ethics after Darwin - Richard Joyce
• 58 Darwin and Protestantism - Diarmid A. Finnegan
• 59 Creationism - Ronald L. Numbers
• 60 Darwin and Catholicism - John F. Haught
• 61 Judaism, Jews, and Evolution - Marc Swetlitz
• 62 Religion: Islam - Martin Riexinger
• 63 From Evolution and Medicine to Evolutionary Medicine - Tatjana Buklijas; Peter Gluckman
• Bibliography