Michael Ruse: Monad to Man: The Concept of Progress sin Evolutionary Biology

摘要

In the Acknowledgments of Monad to Man, Michael Ruse thanks E. O. Wilson for having urged him 'at least once to write a really big book' (Ruse )[1996], p. ix). He also thanks a number of readers of early versions of the book. At least two of those readers, historians of science, have since described it as con- troversial. Peter Bowler called it 'an important book on the status of evolution- ism that will almost certainly become embroiled in controversy' (Bowler [1997], p. 274).