Darwinian heresies / edited by Abigail Lustig, Robert J. Richards, Michael Ruse.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Biologists on Crusade / Abigail Lustig -- Russian theoretical biology between heresy and orthodoxy: Georgii Shaposhinikov and his experiments on plant lice / Elena Aronova and Daniel Alexandrov -- The spectre of Darwinism: the popular image of Darwinism in early twentieth-century Britain / Peter J. Bowler -- Natural theology / Abigail Lustig -- Ironic heresy: how young-earth creationists came to embrace rapid microevolution by means of natural selection / Ronald L. Numbers -- If this be heresy: Haeckel's conversion to Darwinism / Robert J. Richards -- Adaptive landscapes and dynamic equilibrium: the Spencerian contribution to twentieth-century, American, evolutionary biology / Michael Ruse -- 'The ninth moral sin': the Lamarckism of W.M. Wheeler / Charlotte Sleigh -- Contemporary Darwinism and religion / Mikael Stenmark.

"Darwinian Heresies looks at the history of evolutionary thought, breaking through much of the conventional thinking to see whether there are assumptions or theories that are blinding us to important issues. The collection, which includes some of today's leading historians and philosophers of science, digs beneath the surface and shows that not all is precisely as it is too often assumed to be. Covering a wide range of issues starting back in the eighteenth century, Darwinian Heresies brings us through the time of Charles Darwin and the Origin all the way to the twenty-first century."--Jacket.