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Darwinism and Its Discontents

Skeptical Inquirer,  Sept-Oct, 2006  by Kendrick Frazier

Darwinism and Its Discontents. Michael Ruse. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2006. 308 pp. Hardcover, $30. Ruse, one of the world's leading authorities on the history and philosophy of evolutionary theory, here provides an ardent defense of Darwin's theory of evolution against its many critics.

He examines important issues such as the origins of life, the fossil record, the mechanism of natural selection, punctuated equilibrium, and even discusses how the recent discovery of "hobbit" people (Homo floresiensis) on an Indonesian island fits into the evolutionary context. He also discusses fraud in biological sciences, literary approaches to evolution, and the philosophical and religious implications of Darwinism.

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