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1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 58 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Matthew McAuliffe. |
| Summary |
In this provocative history of contemporary debates over evolution, veteran journalist Tom Bethell depicts Darwin's theory as a nineteenth-century idea past its prime, propped up by logical fallacies, bogus claims, and empirical evidence that is all but disintegrating under an onslaught of new scientific discoveries. Bethell presents a concise yet wide-ranging tour of the flash points of modern evolutionary theory, investigating controversies over common descent, natural selection, the fossil record, biogeography, information theory, evolutionary psychology, artificial intelligence, and the growing intelligent design movement. Bethell's account is enriched by his own personal encounters with of some of our era's leading scientists and thinkers, including Harvard biologists Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin; British paleontologist Colin Patterson; and renowned philosopher of science Karl Popper. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Influence.
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Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Evolution (Biology)
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Natural selection.
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McAuliffe, Matthew, Narrator
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hoopla digital.
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| Added Title |
House of cards : a journalist's odyssey through the Darwin debates |
| ISBN |
9781982694647 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982694645 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12354230 |
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