Author: Ruse, Michael.
Title: Mystery of mysteries. Is evolution a social construction?
Description: Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999 (1st ed.); xii+296pp., index, glossary, bibliography, bl-wh figures, portrait photographs, half cloth w. gilt lettering, dustwrapper. As new. ¶ on the basis of the Popper/Kuhn juxtaposition, evolutionary theory ranging from grandfather Erasmus Darwin to microevolutionist Geoffry Parker and paleontologist Jack Sepkoski - and a variety of opposing modern evolutionists in between - Michael Ruse "explicates the role of metaphor and metavalues in evolutionary thought and draws significant conclusions about the cultural impregnation of science." (blurp) This is a book about the 'science wars', to use a metaphor, written in a vivid style by a philosopher who is very well known with biology.

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