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- catalog abstract ""Science has seen its fair share of punch-ups over the years, but one debate, in the field of biology, has become notorious for its intensity. Over the last twenty years, Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould have engaged in a savage battle over evolution that shows no signs of waning. Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker, conceives of evolution as a struggle between gene lineages; Gould, who wrote Wonderful Life and Rocks of Ages, sees it as a struggle between organisms. For Dawkins, the principles of evolutionary biology apply just as well to humans as they do to all living creatures; for Gould, however, this sociobiology is not just ill-motivated but wrong, and dangerous. Dawkins' views have been caricatured, and the man painted as a crazed reductionist, shrinking all the variety and complexity of life down to a struggle for existence between blind and selfish genes. Gould, too, has been falsely represented by creationists as rejecting the fundamental principles of Darwinism itself." "Kim Sterelny moves beyond caricature to expose the real differences between the conceptions of evolution of these two leading scientists. He shows that the conflict extends beyond evolution to their very beliefs in science itself; and, in Gould's case, to domains in which science plays no role at all."--Jacket.".
- catalog alternative "Dawkins versus Gould".
- catalog contributor b12262150.
- catalog contributor b12262151.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Science has seen its fair share of punch-ups over the years, but one debate, in the field of biology, has become notorious for its intensity. Over the last twenty years, Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould have engaged in a savage battle over evolution that shows no signs of waning. Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker, conceives of evolution as a struggle between gene lineages; Gould, who wrote Wonderful Life and Rocks of Ages, sees it as a struggle between organisms. For Dawkins, the principles of evolutionary biology apply just as well to humans as they do to all living creatures; for Gould, however, this sociobiology is not just ill-motivated but wrong, and dangerous. Dawkins' views have been caricatured, and the man painted as a crazed reductionist, shrinking all the variety and complexity of life down to a struggle for existence between blind and selfish genes. Gould, too, has been falsely represented by creationists as rejecting the fundamental principles of Darwinism itself." "Kim Sterelny moves beyond caricature to expose the real differences between the conceptions of evolution of these two leading scientists. He shows that the conflict extends beyond evolution to their very beliefs in science itself; and, in Gould's case, to domains in which science plays no role at all."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Battle joined: Clash of perspectives -- Dawkins' world: Genes and gene lineages -- Gene selection in a world of organisms -- Extended phenotypes and outlaws -- Selfishness and selection -- Selection and adaptation -- View from Harvard: Local process, global change? -- Punctuated equilibrium -- Mass extinction -- Life in the Cambrian -- Evolutionary escalator -- State of play: Candle in the dark? -- Stumps summary -- Suggested reading -- Glossary -- Appendix: Geological time scale.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 141-151).".
- catalog extent "156 p. :".
- catalog identifier "1840462493".
- catalog isPartOf "Revolutions in science".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge, UK : Icon ; [New York] : Totem Books,".
- catalog subject "2002 I-257".
- catalog subject "576.8 21".
- catalog subject "Biological Evolution.".
- catalog subject "Dawkins, Richard, 1941- Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Dawkins, Richard, 1941-".
- catalog subject "Evolution (Biology) Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Gould, Stephen Jay Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Gould, Stephen Jay.".
- catalog subject "QH 375 S838d 2001".
- catalog subject "QH360.5 .S74 2001".
- catalog subject "Selection, Genetic.".
- catalog subject "Survival.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Battle joined: Clash of perspectives -- Dawkins' world: Genes and gene lineages -- Gene selection in a world of organisms -- Extended phenotypes and outlaws -- Selfishness and selection -- Selection and adaptation -- View from Harvard: Local process, global change? -- Punctuated equilibrium -- Mass extinction -- Life in the Cambrian -- Evolutionary escalator -- State of play: Candle in the dark? -- Stumps summary -- Suggested reading -- Glossary -- Appendix: Geological time scale.".
- catalog title "Dawkins versus Gould".
- catalog title "Dawkins vs. Gould : survival of the fittest / Kim Sterelny ; series editor, Jon Turney.".
- catalog type "text".