Darwin and design : does evolution have a purpose? /
Michael Ruse.
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003.
- x, 371 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-357) and index.
Two thousand years of design -- Paley and Kant fight back -- Sowing the seeds of evolution -- A plurality of problems -- Charles Darwin -- A subject too profound -- Darwinian against Darwinian -- The century of evolutionism -- Adaptation in action -- Theory and test -- Formalism redux -- From function to design -- Design as metaphor -- Natural theology evolves -- Turning back the clock.