Evolution: The First Four Billion Years

with essays on the social and political sienifi-

cance of evolutionary biology today.

A

second, encyclopedic section travels

the

spectrum of topics in evolution with concise,

informative,
and accessible entries on

individ-

uals

from

Aristotle and

Linnaeus

to

Louis

Leakey and

Jean

Lamarck; from T. H. Huxley

and Edward
O. Wilson

to

Joseph

Felsenstein

and

Motoo Kimura;

and

on

subjects

fronr al-

truism and an-rphibians to evolutionary psy-

chology and

Piltdown Man to

the Scopes

trial

and social Darwinism. Readers will

find

the

latest word on the history and philosophy of

evolution,

the nuances of the science itself, and

the

intricate interplay

anong

evolutionary

study, religion, philosophy, and sociery.

Appearing

at the beginning of the

Darwin

Year of 2oo9-the zooth anniversary of the

birth of

Charles

Darwin and the rjoth an-

niversary

of the

publication of the Origirt o-f

Species-this volume

is

a

fitting

tribute to the

science Darwin set in nlotion.

M TcHAEL RUSE is Lucyle T.

Werknreister

Professor of Philosophy and Director of the

Pro-

granr

in the History and Philosophy of Science,

Florida State

(Jniversiry.

He is the founder and edi-

tor ofthejournal Biology and Philosophy and has ap-

peared

on

"Quirks

and

Quarks"

and the Discovery

Channel. His books include Tlrc Euolution-Crcdtiort

Struggle and Danyin and Desigtr

ftoth

from Harvard).

J oS EPH TRAVTS is Dean ofthe College of

Arts and Sciences and Robert O. Lawton Distin-

guished Professor of Biological Science at Florida

State Universiry.

The Belknap Press of Harvard Universiry Press

Cambridge, Nlassathusetts, attd Lturdon, England

http://www.hup.harvard. edu

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