Biology and ideology from Descartes to Dawkins /
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Table of Contents:
- The cultural authority of natural history in early modern europe / Peter Harrison
- Biology, atheism, and politics in eighteenth-century France / Shirley A. Roe
- Eighteenth-century uses of vitalism in constructing the human sciences / Peter Hanns Reill
- Biology in the service of natural theology: Paley, Darwin, and the Bridgewater Treatises / Jonathan R. Topham
- Race, empire, and biology before Darwinism / Sujit Sivasundaram
- Darwin's choice / Nicolaas Rupke
- Biology and the emergence of the Anglo-American eugenics movement / Edward J. Larson
- Genetics, eugenics, and the holocaust / Paul Weindling
- Darwinism, Marxism, and genetics in the Soviet Union: the dialectics of co-evolution / Nikolai Krementsov
- Evolution and the idea of social progress / Michael Ruse
- Beauty and the beast? : conceptualizing sex in evolutionary narratives / Erika Lorraine Milam
- Creationism, intelligent design, and modern biology / Ronald L. Numbers
- The ideological uses of evolutionary biology in recent atheist apologetics / Alister E. Mcgrath.