Evolution from molecules to men / edited by D.S. Bendall on behalf of Darwin College.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1985, ©1983.

xiii, 594 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Revised papers first presented at a conference entitled "Evolution of molecules and men", Darwin College, Cambridge, 27 June-2 July 1982.

How far will Darwin take us? / A. F. Huxley -- Darwin, intellectual revolutionary / Ernst Mayr -- The development of Darwin's general biological theorizing / M. J. S. Hodge -- Darwin and the nature of science / D. L. Hull -- The several faces of Darwin: materialism in nineteenth and twentieth century evolutionary theory / G. E. Allen -- Self-replication and molecular evolution / M. Eigen -- Molecular tinkering in evolution / F. Jacob -- Intimations of evolution from the three-dimensional structures of proteins / D. C. Phillips, M. J. E. Sternberg, and B. J. Sutton -- Evolution of gene families: the globin genes / A. J. Jeffreys ... [et al.] -- Gene clusters and genome evolution / W. F. Bodmer -- The primary lines of descent and the universal ancestor / C. R. Woese -- Experimental evolution / P. H. Clarke -- Variation as a genetic engineering process / J. A. Shapiro -- Gene, organism and environment / R. C. Lewontin -- Population genetics and ecology: the interface / E. Nevo -- A Darwinian plant ecology / J. L. Harper -- Irrelevance, submission and partnership: the changing role of palaeontology in Darwin's three centennials and a modest proposal for macroevolution / S. J. Gould -- Plate tectonics and evolution / A. Hallam -- Microevolution and macroevolution / F. J. Ayala -- Universal Darwinism / R. Dawkins -- The development of an evolutionary ethology / R. W. Burkhardt -- Game theory and the evolution of cooperation / J. Maynard Smith -- Selection in relation to sex / T. H. Clutton-Brock -- Rules for changing the rules / P. P. G. Bateson -- Aspects of human evolution / G. Ll. Isaac -- Sociobiology and the Darwinian approach to mind and culture / E. O. Wilson -- Evolution, ethics, and the representation problem / Bernard Williams -- The mysterious case of Charles Darwin / J. Passmore.

Includes bibliographies and index.