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      Before Darwin: Reconciling God and Nature

      Keith Stewart Thomson

      Scientists and thologians had long been debating the religious implicaitons of evolutionary theory when Darwin announced his theory of natural selection.

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      The Legacy of the Mastodon: The Golden Age of Fossils in America

      Keith Stewart Thomson

      Tells the story of the grandest period of fossil discovery in American history, the years from 1750 to 1890. This volume begins with Thomas Jefferson, whose keen interest in the…

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      The Young Charles Darwin

      Keith Stewart Thomson

      Intends to inquire into the range of influences and ideas, the mentors and rivals, and the formal and informal education that shaped Charles Darwin and prepared him for his remarkable…

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      Private Doubt, Public Dilemma: Religion and Science since Jefferson and Darwin

      Keith Stewart Thomson

      A distinguished scholar urges scientists and religious thinkers to become colleagues rather than adversaries in areas where their fields overlap

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      Jefferson’s Shadow: The Story of His Science

      Keith Stewart Thomson

      Reintroduces us to Thomas Jefferson’s eighteenth-century world and reveals how Jefferson used science, thought about it, contributed to it, and became the leading scientific intellectual of his time. This book…

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      Living Fossil: The Story of the Coelacanth

      Keith Stewart Thomson

      An engrossing tale of obsession, adventure and scientific reasoning. Betty Ann Kevles, Los Angeles Times

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      The Common but Less Frequent Loon and Other Essays

      Keith Stewart Thomson

      Looking at the aesthetic, literary and intellectual aspects of science, this work sets out to convey what is involved in being a scientist today. Science is described as a great…

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      Morphogenesis and Evolution

      Keith Stewart Thomson (President, President, Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia)

      Developmental and evolutionary biologists are attempting to understand better how evolutionary trends and patterns within individuals might be limited and controlled. The author reviews the classical literature on embryology, morphogenesis…

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      The Religion and Science Debate: Why Does It Continue?

      Why does the tension between science and religion continue? How have those tensions impacted the public debate about so-called ‘intelligent design’ as a scientific alternative to evolution? This title addresses…

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