Charles Darwin
A Celebration of His Life and Legacy
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Pages: 272
Trim size: 6.000in x 9.000in
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Pub Date: 11/01/2013
ISBN: 9-781-5883-8281-8
List Price: $32.50
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Pub Date: 11/01/2013
ISBN: 9-781-6030-6199-5
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Charles Darwin
A Celebration of His Life and Legacy
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Charles Darwin (1809–82) changed the world forever with the 1859 publication of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. Charles Darwin: A Celebration of His Life and Legacy is an anthology of critical writings that grew out of a lecture series, hosted by Auburn University, held on the occasion of the two hundredth anniversary of Darwin’s birth and the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of the first edition of his most famous book.
Ideas in On the Origin of Species reordered the biological sciences forever, spawned new disciplines including evolutionary psychology, sociobiology, and evolutionary developmental biology, became foundational for modern biomedical research and practice, inspired new literature and literary criticism, were misused by 20th-century eugenicists and social Darwinists, traumatized persons with certain theological views, and continue to alter humankind’s view of itself and its place in the world. The seventeen contributors to this anthology tell an interdisciplinary story of Charles Darwin the person, Darwin’s work and world-altering ideas, and Darwin’s legacy.
—Reports of the National Center for Science Education
Jon Armbruster
Lewis Barker
Guy Beckwith
Richard Dawkins
Gerard Elfstrom
Debbie Folkerts
Kenneth Halanych
Shawn Jacobsen
Jeffrey Katz
David King
John Magnotti
Anthony Moss
Kelly Schmidtke
Giovanna Summerfield
Anthony Wright