"This guide provides teachers in major disciplines with a gold mine of information to get the big picture."
-VOYA

"...highly recommended for academic and public libraries."
-ARBA

"The text is interesting and readable for the nonscientist, while maintaining a scholarly style. Students in advanced placement natural and social science courses will find this book interesting and useful in the study of evolution."
-The Book Report

"...an engaging, thought-provoking, and witty analysis of the history of evolutionary thought ... The evolution controversies are themselves fascinating subjects, and Ruse makes them much more understandable by placing them in the historical, social, religious, and even personal contexts of their times ... A must read for students of evolution and the philosophy of science, but also for anyone interested in a fascinating history of a most radical and continuing change in scientific thought that (like it or not) permeates all of biology and society today."
-CHOICE

Evolution Wars:
A Guide to the Debates

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Pub. Date: December 2008
Softcover: 500 pages
ISBN: 1-59237-288-0/978-1-59237-288-1
Price: $165.00
EBook ISBN: 978-1-59237-299-7 EBook Vendors

The year 2009 marks the 200-year anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth. This timely update of The Evolution Wars draws on history, science, and philosophy to examine the development of evolutionary thought through the past two and a half centuries.

• Focuses on the great debates that have engaged, divided, stimulated, and provoked scientists and others to ponder the origins of humankind
  
  
• Examines the history of evolution, early evolutionists, Darwinism, creationism, genetics, sociobiology, philosophy, natural selection and more
  
  
• Updated through current events, with two new chapters and more illustrations
  
  
• New Chapter Introductions and Overviews to outline the contents of each chapter
  
  
• New Historical Timeline
  
  
• New section on Biographies of Prominent Scientists, for easy reference
  
  
• New section on Primary Documents, for added understanding of the topic
  
  
• Available in print and ebook formats

With two and a half centuries of evolutionary thought, in one all-inclusive volume, this thought-provoking encyclopedia is a much-needed resource in public libraries, and university collections.

Pub. Date: December 2008
Softcover: 500 pages
ISBN: 1-59237-288-0/978-1-59237-288-1
Price: $165.00
EBook ISBN: 978-1-59237-229-7 EBook Vendors

Note: If you find this work does not fit your budget, please print out this page and bring it to your local library. There is a reasonable chance they either have a copy, can direct you to a library that does, or will be willing to purchase it for their reference collection.