Michael Ruse. Darwinism and Its Discontents.(Book review)

symploke | January 1, 2007| | Copyright

Michael Ruse. Darwinism and Its Discontents. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006. 326 pp.

Biology is hot, as all informed people will have noticed, due not only to a creationist resurgence, nor only to stunning scientific developments since the discovery of DNA. The creationist controversy and genetic engineering get the biggest headlines, but biology's in-house debates about evolution are showing equally significant philosophical resonance: about the reducibility of biology to physics, about the explanatory adequacy of natural selection, about the proportionate influence ...

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