Evolutionary thinking
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Evolutionary thinking
Evolution as an idea has a lengthy history, even though the idea of evolution is generally associated with Darwin today. Rebecca Stott provides an engaging and thoughtful overview of this history of evolutionary thinking in her 2013 book, Darwin’ s Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution. Since Darwin, the debate over evolution—both how it takes place and, in a long war of words with religiousl...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Communicative & Integrative Biology
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1942-0889
DOI: 10.4161/19420889.2014.993267