In most volumes with more than a single author, the contributors complement each other, addressing a common subject matter from a shared point of view. Robert J. Richards and Michael Ruse’s Debating Darwin is unusual in the sense that its two authors disagree, profoundly so, about their joint topic of interest—Charles Darwin. The very purpose of the collaboration is to bring to the fore each author’s very different interpretation of what the shared hero of the story really was all about, and what he meant in writing his two most consequential classics, On the Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871).
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