Chapter 1 Introduction: The Sand Walk (on the Darwin’s Steps)

Chapter 2 Idola Tribus: Lamarck, Politics and Religion in the Early Nineteenth Century

Chapter 3 Darwinism Past and Present: Is It Past Its “Sell-by” Date?

Chapter 4 Evolutionary Theory and Philosophical Darwinism

Chapter 5 Struggle for Existence: Selection, Retention and Extinction of a Metaphor

Chapter 6 The Theory of Evolution and Cultural Anthropology

Chapter 8 Theory of Evolution and Genetics

Chapter 9 Genes, Evolution and the Development of the Embryo

Chapter 10 Evolutionary Mechanisms and Neural Adaptation: Selective Versus Constructive Strategies in the Development and Plasticity of the Nervous System

Chapter 11 Is the Human Brain Unique?

Chapter 12 Aristotle and the Chicken: Animacy and the Origins of Beliefs

Chapter 13 Evolution: Remarks on the History of a Concept Adopted by Darwin

Chapter 14 An Evolving Research Programme: The Structure of Evolutionary Theory from a Lakatosian Perspective