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    Evolution: the remarkable history of a scientific theory.Edward John Larson - 2004 - New York: Modern Library.
    “I often said before starting, that I had no doubt I should frequently repent of the whole undertaking.” So wrote Charles Darwin aboard The Beagle , bound for the Galapagos Islands and what would arguably become the greatest and most controversial discovery in scientific history. But the theory of evolution did not spring full-blown from the head of Darwin. Since the dawn of humanity, priests, philosophers, and scientists have debated the origin and development of life on earth, and with modern (...)
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    Biology and the emergence of the Anglo-American eugenics movement.Edward J. Larson - 2010 - In Denis R. Alexander & Ronald L. Numbers (eds.), Biology and Ideology From Descartes to Dawkins. London: University of Chicago Press.
    In the late 1800s, Charles Darwin and other naturalists supported a blending view of inheritance whereby offspring possess a middling mix of their parents' traits. Many of these naturalists also argued that individuals pass at least some of their acquired characteristics to their descendants. Darwin proposed that acquired characteristics and other environmentally induced changes in a parent's hereditary material account in large part for the inheritable variations that drove evolution. Inspired by the evolutionary theories of his first cousin, Darwin, Francis (...)
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    Before the crusade: Evolution in American secondary education before 1920.Edward J. Larson - 1987 - Journal of the History of Biology 20 (1):89-114.
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    Science in the american south through the eyes of four natural historians, 1750–1850.Edward J. Larson - 1991 - Annals of Science 48 (3):231-240.
    A national scientific community developed in the United States following the American Revolution. The independent scientific societies, journals and other institutions that formed the basis of this community were, however, centred in the North. An analysis of the work of four leading natural historians of the Southern tidewater suggests that their region participated in this development by shifting scientific ties and allegiances from Europe to the North rather than by creating national or regional scientific institutions.
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    On Faith and Science.Edward John Larson & Michael Ruse - 2017 - Yale University Press.
    Throughout history, scientific discovery has clashed with religious dogma, creating conflict, controversy, and sometimes violent dispute. In this enlightening and accessible volume, distinguished historian and Pulitzer Prize–winning author Edward Larson and Michael Ruse, philosopher of science and Gifford Lecturer, offer their distinctive viewpoints on the sometimes contentious relationship between science and religion. The authors explore how scientists, philosophers, and theologians through time and today approach vitally important topics, including cosmology, geology, evolution, genetics, neurobiology, gender, and the environment. Broaching their subjects (...)
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  6. The Scopes Trial in History and Legend.Edward J. Larson - 2003 - In David C. Lindberg & Ronald L. Numbers (eds.), When Science and Christianity Meet. University of Chicago Press. pp. 245--64.
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    (1 other version)Gregory Michael Dorr. Segregation's Science: Eugenics and Society in Virginia. xi + 297 pp., illus., bibl., index. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008. $45. [REVIEW]Edward J. Larson - 2011 - Isis 102 (1):180-180.
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    (1 other version)Jeffrey P. Moran. The Scopes Trial: A Brief History with Documents. x+230 pp., illus., apps., index. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2002. $14.95. [REVIEW]Edward J. Larson - 2003 - Isis 94 (4):744-745.
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    Ronald L. Numbers , Creationism in Twentieth-Century America: A Ten-Volume Anthology of Documents, 1903–1961. New York: Garland Publishing, 1995. ISBN 0-8153-1801-4. $732.00 set, consisting of: - Volume 1: Ronald L. Numbers , Antievolution Before World War I. Pp. xvii + 403. ISBN 0-8153-1802-2. $65.00. - Volume 2: Ronald L. Numbers , Creation-Evolution Debates. Pp. xiv + 505, illus. ISBN 0-8153-1803-0. $65.00. - Volume 3: Ronald L. Numbers , The Antievolution Works of Arthur I. Brown. Pp. xiv + 209. ISBN 0-8153-1804-9. $65.00. - Volume 4: William Vance TrollingerJr, , The Antievolution Pamphlets of William Bell Riley. Pp. xxii + 221. ISBN 0-8153-1805-7. $55.00. - Volume 5: Paul Nelson , The Creationist Writings of Byron C. Nelson. Pp. xxvi + 505, illus. ISBN 0-8153-1806-5. $65.00. - Volume 6: Edward B. Davis , The Antievolution Pamphlets of Harry Rimmer. Pp. xxxiv + 482, illus. ISBN 0-8153-1807-3. $84.00. - Volume 7: Ronald L. Numbers , Selected Works of George McCready Price. Pp. xvii. [REVIEW]Edward J. Larson - 1996 - British Journal for the History of Science 29 (2):250.
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