Uncover the remarkable story of Darwin's ideas, how scientists and religious leaders reacted to them, and the sea of change in human thought that resulted.
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: The Meaning of Evolution
- 02: The Way It Used to Be
- 03: Theories of Evolution in the 18th Century
- 04: Fossils and Catastrophism
- 05: Theories of Evolution Just before Darwin
- 06: Why Evolution Was Rejected before Darwin
- 07: Darwin's Conversion to Evolution
- 08: What's in On the Origin of Species?
- 09: How Origin Fared among Scientists
- 10: The Religious Reaction to Darwinism
- 11: The Social Implications of Evolution
- 12: Evolution and Heredity
- 13: A Nadir for Natural Selection
- 14: Groundwork for Recovery
- 15: Human Evolution
- 16: The Scopes Trial
- 17: Lamarckian Inheritance on Stage
- 18: Forging an Evolutionary Synthesis
- 19: Evolution and Molecular Biology
- 20: The Rise of Biblical Creationism
- 21: Tinkering with Evolutionary Theory
- 22: The Heritage of Eugenics
- 23: Intelligent Design
- 24: Adding Things Up
Taught by
Frederick Gregory
