The Evolution Wars draws on history, science, and philosophy to examine the development of evolutionary thought through the past two and a half centuries.

Table of Contents

• Dedication
• Acknowledgments
• Prologue
• Part 1: A History of Evolution
• 1 Early Evolutionists in the Debate: The Birth of the Idea
• 2 Conflict Before, During and After The Origin of Species: The Legacy of Charles Darwin
• 3 Darwinism Explodes onto the Victorian Stage: Evolution as Religion
• 4 Darwin in America: The New World
• 5 Evolution Denied & Extolled: The Rise of Creationism, Intelligent Design & Darwinian Religion in America
• Part 2: Evolution Matures
• 6 Darwinism and Genetics: A New Frontier Opens
• 7 Life: The Early Years
• 8 Two New Sciences at War: Placing Ancestors in Time
• 9 Human Sociobiology: Genetic Determinism
• 10 Philosophy: Evolution & Thinking About Knowledge & Morality
• 11 Evolutionary Development: Minimizing Natural Selection
• 12 New Evolutionary Theories: Thickening the Plot of Natural Selection
• Epilogue
• Part 3: Documents
• Chapter 1
• Introduction
• Zoological Philosophy
• Theory of the Earth
• In Memoriam
• Chapter 2
• Introduction
• On the Variation of Organic Beings in a State of Nature: On the Natural Means of Selection; on the Comparison of Domestic Races and True Species
• Abstract of a Letter from Charles Darwin to Professor Asa Gray, 5 September 1857
• Chapter 3
• Introduction
• From The Reception of the "Origin of Species"
• From The Life and Letters of Thomas Huxley
• Studies, Scientific and Social
• Individualism, Socialism, and Humanism From The Grammar of Science
• From Preface to Mutual Aid
• The Right to Make War: From Germany and the Next War
• Perceptions in Science: Is Evolution a Secular Religion?
• Chapter 4
• Introduction
• Darwiniana
• Letter to Asa Gray
• From The Challenge of Facts and Other Essays
• From The Gospel of Wealth and Other Timely Essays
• The Law of Club and Fang: From The Call of the Wild
• The Earth Speaks to Bryan
• Chapter 5
• Introduction
• Magisterium Is Concerned with Question of Evolution for It Involves Conception of Man
• William Dembski and John Haught Spar on Intelligent Design
• Darwin Under the Microscope
• Obscurantism to the Rescue
• Chapter 6
• Introduction
• The Roles of Mutation, Inbreeding, Crossbreeding and Selection in Evolution
• Letter to G. F. Ferris
• Letter to John Greene
• Chapter 7
• Introduction
• The Origin of Life
• Chapter 8
• Introduction
• From Charles Darwin's Notebooks
• From The Origin of Species
• From The Descent of Man
• Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind
• Chapter 9
• Introduction
• Sociobiology-Another Biological Determinism
• Academic Vigilantism and the Political Significance of Sociobiology
• Chapter 10
• Introduction
• The Evolutionary Development of Natural Science
• Moral Philosophy as Applied Science
• Chapter 11
• Introduction
• Forty Years a Philosopher of Biology: Why Evo Devo Makes Me Still Excited About My Subject
• The Generation of Novelty: The Province of Developmental Biology
• Bare-Knuckle Fighting: Evo Devo versus Natural Selection
• Why Pigs Don't Have Wings
• Letters in Response to “Why Pigs Don't Have Wings”
• The Boatman Poem
• Chapter 12
• Introduction
• The Episodic Nature of Evolutionary Change
• Did Darwin Get It Right?
• Part 4: Biographies
• Louis Agassiz
• Michael Behe
• Friedrich von Bernhardi
• William Jennings Bryan
• Edward Drinker Cope
• Georges Cuvier
• Martin Daly
• Clarence Darrow
• Erasmus Darwin
• Nicholas Davies
• Richard Dawkins
• William Dembski
• Daniel Dennett
• Theodosius Dobzhansky
• Ronald Fisher
• Jerry Fodor
• Brian Goodwin
• Stephen Jay Gould
• Peter and Rosemary Grant
• Asa Gray
• Ernst Haeckel
• John Burdon Sanderson Haldane
• William D. Hamilton
• Charles Hodge
• Joseph Dalton Hooker
• Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
• Julian Huxley
• Thomas Henry Huxley
• Phillip Johnson
• Stuart Kauffman
• Prince Petr Kropotkin
• Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck
• Richard Lewontin
• Konrad Lorenz
• Charles Lyell
• Trofim Lysenko
• Thomas Robert Malthus
• Lynn Margulis
• Othniel Charles Marsh
• Ernst Mayr
• Gregor Mendel
• Henry Morris
• Simon Conway Morris
• Hermann J. Muller
• John Henry Newman
• Alexander Oparin
• Richard Owen
• Archdeacon William Paley
• Geoffrey Parker
• Louis Pasteur
• Alvin Plantinga
• Felix Pouchet
• étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
• John J. Sepkoski Jr.
• George Gaylord Simpson
• John Maynard Smith
• Herbert Spencer
• George Ledyard Stebbins
• Chris Stringer
• D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
• Alfred Russel Wallace
• Samuel Wilberforce
• Edward O. Wilson
• Margo Wilson
• Milford Wolpoff
• Sewall Wright
• Part 5: Appendices
• References
• Chronology
• Glossary
• Illustration and Document Credits and Permissions
• About the Author