Darwinism Defended: A Guide to the Evolution Controversies

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Addison-Wesley, Advanced Book Program/World Science Division, 1982 - Science - 356 pages
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Contents

CHARLES DARWIN BECOMES AN EVOLUTIONIST
3
ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES
30
THE COMING OF MENDELIANGENETICS
63
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About the author (1982)

Professor "James W. Nilsson" taught at Iowa State University for 39 years. Since retiring from Iowa State, he has been a visiting professor at Notre Dame, California Polytechnic at San Luis Obispo, and the United States Air Force Academy. In 1962, he co-authored (with R.G. Brown) "Introduction to Linear Systems Analysis" (John Wiley & Sons). In 1968, he authored "Introduction to Circuits, Instruments, and Electronics" (Harcourt Brace and World). Professor Nilsson received a Standard Oil Outstanding Teacher Award in 1968, the IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award in 1992, and the McGraw-Hill Jacob Millman Award in 1995. In 1990, he was elected to the rank of Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Professor "Susan A. Riedel" has been a member of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Marquette University since 1981. She also holds a clinical research appointment in the Department of Orthopaedics at the Medical College of Wisconsin and was a visiting professor in the Bioengineering Unit at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, as a Fulbright Scholar during the 1989-1999 academic year. She has received two awards for teaching excellence at Marquette, and was recognized for her research contributions with an award from the Chicago Unit of the Shriner's Hospitals.

Michael Ruse is the Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Program in the History and Philosophy of Science at Florida State University. Author and editor of numerous books, most recently Darwinism and its Discontents and The Cambridge Companion to the 'Origin of Species' (with Robert Richards), he has been a Herbert Spencer Lecturer at Oxford University, a Gifford Lecturer at the University of Glasgow, and Reynolds Lecturer at Baylor University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the recipient of three honorary degrees.

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TitleDarwinism Defended: A Guide to the Evolution Controversies
Addison-Wesley Series in Electrical Engineering
AuthorsMichael Ruse, James W Nilsson, Professor of Philosophy and Zoology Michael Ruse
ContributorErnst Mayr
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherAddison-Wesley, Advanced Book Program/World Science Division, 1982
Original fromthe University of California
DigitizedJul 2, 2009
ISBN0201062739, 9780201062731
Length356 pages
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