Darwin’s Dangerous Idea

Darwin’s Dangerous Idea (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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The study of Darwinian theory has attracted many of the brightest minds and best writers of the late twentieth century. Because of fundamental philosophic and religious implications, the theory of evolution has become a battlefield for scholars and amateurs in a wide range of disciplines as diverse as ethics, paleontology, linguisics, and theology. In Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life, Daniel C. Dennett attempts to integrate this enormously diverse research into a coherent but popularly understandable defense of neo-Darwinian thought. Charles...

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