The main goal of this book is to put the Darwinian tradition in context by raising questions such as: How should it be defined? Did it interact with other resea

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No other scientific theory has had as tremendous an impact on our understanding of the world as Darwin's theory as outlined in his Origin of Species, yet from t

Widely seen as evolution's founding figure, Charles Darwin is taken by many evolutionists to be the first to propose a truly modern theory of evolution. Darwin'

This book contests the general view that natural selection constitutes the explanatory core of evolutionary biology. It invites the reader to consider an altern