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Essays on Darwinism

Thomas Roscoe Rede Stebbing

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Natural selection meets a thoughtful, questioning mind. Stebbing's essays take up Darwinism from many angles, weighing instinct against reason, the vastness of geological time, and the gaps in the fossil record. Reasoned and readable engagements with the theory. Think through evolution alongside a careful Victorian naturalist.

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22 chapters

  1. 1ESSAYS ON DARWINISM.
  2. 2PREFACE.
  3. 3CONTENTS.
  4. 4NOTES to pp. 13 and 34.
  5. 5DARWINISM.
  6. 6DARWINISM.
  7. 7THE NOACHIAN FLOOD.
  8. 8INSTINCT AND REASON.
  9. 9HUMAN NATURE AND BRUTE NATURE.
  10. 10THE LAPSE OF TIME.
  11. 11NOTE ON THE HYPOTHESIS OF SPONTANEOUS GENERATION.
  12. 12THE IMPERFECTION OF THE GEOLOGICAL RECORD.
  13. 13DARWINISM. THE NOACHIAN FLOOD.
  14. 14SCIENCE AND RELIGION.
  15. 15DARWINISM, AND THE FIRST VERTEBRATE.
  16. 16THE FIRST VERTEBRATE, AND THE BEGINNING OF REASON.
  17. 17OYSTERS OF THE CHALK, AND THE THEORY OF DEVELOPMENT.
  18. 18THE MATHEMATICAL TEST OF NATURAL SELECTION.

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