Evolution

Edited by A. C. Fabian

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. v+179.
ISBN: 0521-57208-8 hardback.

Available from CUP online. Discounted copies, available to Darwin College members only, may be ordered from the Master's Secretary.

This volume contains revised versions of the lectures given in 1995 in the tenth annual series of Darwin College Lectures.

Introduction

Andrew C. Fabian, FRS
Royal Society Research Professor, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Darwin College

1 On Transmuting Boyle's Law to Darwin's Revolution

Stephen Jay Gould
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology and Professor of Geology, Harvard University

2 The Evolution of Cellular Development

Lewis Wolpert, FRS
Professor of Biology as Applied to Medicine, University College, London

3 The Evolution of Guns and Germs

Jared Diamond
National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society

4 The Evolution of London

Richard Rogers
Architect

5 The Evolution of Society

Tim Ingold
Max Gluckman Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester

6 The Evolution of the Novel

Gillian Beer
King Edward VII Professor of English, University of Cambridge, President of Clare Hall

7 The Evolution of Science

Freeman Dyson
Emeritus Professor of Physics, Princeton Institute of Advanced Study

8 The Evolution of the Universe

Martin Rees, FRS
Astronomer Royal, Royal Society Research Professor, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of King's College

Index