EVOLUTION AND THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD
Dept. #0423, Course #114-0 Date & Time: Fall Quarter; M, W, F; 10 am Enrollment: 30-60
http://www4.nas.edu/opus/evolve.nsf = Natl. Academy of Science site
http://books.nap.edu/html/creationism/ = Natl. Academy of Science site
http://books.nap.edu/html/evolution98/ = Natl. Academy of Science site
http://emporium.turnpike.net/C/cs/ = Creation Science site
http://www.icr.org/ = Institute for Creation research site
http://www.fmnh.org/ = The Field Museum of Natural History
COURSE DESCRIPTION
RELATED LINKS on Evolution, Creationism, etc.
http://mcb.harvard.edu/BioLinks/Evolution.html = Harvard site
PUBLICATIONS ON EVOLUTION
*Berra, T. 1990. Evolution and the Myth of Creationism: A Basic Guide to the
Facts in the Evolution Debate. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
*Clough, M. 1994. Diminish students' resistance to biological evolution. American
Biology Teacher 56:409415.
*Darwin, C. 1934. Charles Darwin's Diary of the Voyage of H.M.S. Beagle, Nora
Barlow, ed. Cambridge, UK: The University Press.
*Darwin, C. 1859. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. London:
J. Murray.
*Dawkins, R. 1996. Climbing Mount Improbable. New York: W.W. Norton.
*Dawkins, R. 1986. The Blind Watchmaker: Why Evidence of Evolution Reveals a
Universe Without Design. New York: W.W. Norton.
*de Duve, C. 1995. Vital Dust: Life as a Cosmic Imperative. New York: Basic
Books.
*Dennett, D.C. 1995. Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life.
New York: Simon and Schuster.
*Diamond, J. 1997. Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York:
W.W. Norton.
*Diamond, J. 1992. The Third Chimpanzee: Evolution and Future of the Human
Animal. New York: HarperCollins.
*Diamond, J., and M.L. Cody, eds. 1975. Ecology and Evolution of Communities.
Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
*Ewald, P. 1994. The Evolution of Infectious Disease. New York: Oxford University
Press.
*Futuyma, D. 1997. Evolutionary Biology. 3rd ed. Sunderland, MA: Sinauer
Associates, Inc.
*Futuyma, D. 1995. Science on Trial: The Case for Evolution. 2nd ed. Sunderland,
MA.: Sinauer Associates, Inc.
*Gillis, A. 1994. Keeping creationism out of the classroom. BioScience
44:650-656.
*Goldschmidt, T. 1996. Darwin's Dreampond: Drama in Lake Victoria. Cambridge, MA:
MIT Press.
*Goldsmith, T. H. 1991. The Biological Roots of Human Nature: Forging Links
Between Evolution and Behavior. New York: Oxford University Press.
*Gould, S.J. 1997. This view of life: Nonoverlapping magisteria. Natural History
106(2):16-22.
*Gould, S.J. 1994. The evolution of life on the earth. Scientific American
271(Oct):85-91.
*Gould, S.J. 1989. Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History.
New York: W.W. Norton.
*Gould, S.J. 1980. The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History. New
York: W.W. Norton.
*Gould, S.J. 1977. Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History. New York:
W.W. Norton.
*Kitcher, P. 1982. Abusing Science: The Case Against Creationism. Cambridge, MA:
MIT Press.
*Matsumura, M., ed. 1995. Voices for Evolution. 2nd ed. Berkeley, CA: National
Center for Science Education.
*Mayr, E. 1991. One Long Argument: Charles Darwin and the Genesis of Modern
Evolutionary Thought. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
*Mayr, E. 1972. The nature of the Darwinian revolution. Science 176:981-989.
*McComas, W., ed. 1994. Investigating Evolutionary Biology in the Laboratory.
Reston, VA: National Association of Biology Teachers.
*McKinney, M.L. 1993. Evolution of Life: Processes, Patterns, and Prospects.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
*Moore, J.R. 1979. The Post-Darwinian Controversies: A Study of the Protestant
Struggle to Come to Terms with Darwin in Great Britain and America, 1870-1900.
Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
*Nesse, R., and G. Williams. 1995. Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian
Medicine. New York: Times Books.
*Newell, N.D. 1982. Creation and Evolution: Myth or Reality? New York: Columbia
University Press.
*Numbers, R. 1993. The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
*Quammen, D. 1996. The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of
Extinctions. New York: Scribner.
*Ruse, M. 1996. But Is It Science? The Philosophical Question in the
Creation/Evolution Controversy. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
*Ruse, M. 1982. Darwinism Defended: A Guide to the Evolution Controversies.
Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley.
*Ruse, M. 1979. The Darwinian Revolution: Science Red in Tooth and Claw. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press.
*Tiffin, L. 1994. Creationism's Upside-down Pyramid: How Science Refutes
Fundamentalism. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
*Walsh, S., and T. Demere. 1993. Facts, Faith and Fairness: Scientific
Creationism Clouds Scientific Literacy. Berkeley, CA: National Center for Science
Education.
*Weiner, J. 1994. The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time. New
York: Alfred A. Knopf.
*Wills, C. 1989. The Wisdom of the Genes: New Pathways in Evolution. New York:
Basic Books.
*Wilson, E. 1992. The Diversity of Life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
*Zimmer, C. 1998. At the Water's Edge: Macroevolution and the Transformation of
Life. New York, NY: The Free Press.
Publications on the Nature of Science
*Aicken, F. 1991. The Nature of Science. 2nd ed. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann
Educational Books.
*Bronowski, J. 1965. Science and Human Values. New York: Harper.
*Chalmers, A. 1995. What Is This Thing Called Science? 2nd ed. Indianapolis:
Nackett.
*Chalmers, A. 1990. Science and Its Fabrication. Minneapolis, MN: University of
Minnesota Press.
*Daedalus. 1978. Limits of scientific inquiry. 107 (Spring).
*Hull, D. 1988. Science as a Process: An Evolutionary Account of the Social and
Conceptual Development of Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
*Kuhn, T.S. 1970. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of
Chicago Press.
*Laudan, Larry. 1996. Beyond Positivism and Relativism: Theory, Method, and
Evidence. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
*Popper, K. 1994. The Myth of the Framework: In Defense of Science and
Rationality. London: Routledge.
*Wolpert, L. 1992. The Unnatural Nature of Science. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press.
*Woolgar, S. 1988. Science: The Very Idea. London: Routledge.
Videos
*The Day the Universe Changed (episode #10, Worlds Without End). 1986. Owings
Mills, MD: MPT-TV.
*The Pleasure of Finding Things Out. 1982. Video interview with Richard Feynman.
New York: Time/Life video.
*Darwin's Revolution in Thought. Talk given by Stephen Jay Gould (No. 126).
Available from Into the Classroom Video, 351 Pleasant Street, Northhampton, MA
01060.
*God, Darwin and the Dinosaurs. 1989. Boston: WGBH Educational Foundation.
*In the Beginning: The Creationist Controversy. 1994. Chicago.WTTW.