Abigail Lustig is a postdoctoral fellow at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has previously held fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, the SNRS, Paris, and the Universitat Autònoma, Barcelona.
Michael Ruse is Lucyle T. Werkmeister Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University. He is the author of many books, including The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw (1999), Monad to Man: The Concept of Progress in Evolutionary Biology (1997), and Can a Darwinian be a Christian?: The Relationship between Science and Religion (Cambridge 2000).
Robert J. Richards is professor of History and Philosophy, and director of the Fishbein Center for History of Science at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Darwin and the Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Mind and Behavior (1987), The Meaning of Evolution (1992), and The Romantic Conception of Life: Science and Philosophy in the Age of Goethe (2002).
Introduction Abigail Lustig; 1. Russian theoretical biology between heresy
and orthodoxy: Georgii Shaposhinikov and his experiments on plant lice
Elena Aronova and Daniel Alexandrov; 2. The spectre of Darwinism: the
popular image of Darwinism in early twentieth-century Britain Peter J.
Bowler; 3. Natural theology Abigail Lustig; 4. Ironic heresy: how
young-earth creationists came to embrace rapid microevolution by means of
natural selection Ronald L. Numbers; 5. If this be heresy: Haeckel's
conversion to Darwinism Robert J. Richards; 6. Adaptive landscapes and
dynamic equilibrium: the Spencerian contribution to twentieth-century,
American, evolutionary biology Michael Ruse; 7. 'The ninth moral sin': the
Lamarckism of W. M. Wheeler Charlotte Sleigh; 8. Contemporary Darwinism and
religion Mikael Stenmark.
