Library
Darwin's Backyard: How Small Experiments Led to a Big Theory
Exclusive excerpt: "How Darwin found universal evolutionary truths in simple yet ingenious home-spun experiments." Author James T. Costa is a professor of biology at Western Carolina University, executive director of Highlands Biological Station, and a trustee of the Charles Darwin Trust.
Paranoid Science: The Christian Right's War on Reality
Exclusive excerpt: Inside the Christian Right's war on science. "A reliable and insightful guide to the fever swamps of evangelical science denial. A gripping, disturbing, and important contribution". Author Antony Alumkal is Associate Professor of Sociology of Religion at the Lliff School of Theology in Denver, Colorado.
Teaching Evolution in a Creation Nation
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview of Teaching Evolution in a Creation Nation (University Of Chicago Press, 2016). The preview consists of chapter 3, "The Dog That Didn't Bark". Co-author Laats is associate professor of education and history at Binghamton University. Co-author Siegel is professor of philosophy at the University of Miami.
Darwin's First Theory
Darwin's First Theory: Exploring Darwin's Quest for a Theory of Earth
by Rob Wesson
NCSE is pleased to offer a free preview of Rob Wesson's Darwin's First Theory: Exploring Darwin's Quest for a Theory of Earth (Pegasus Books, 2017). The preview consists of chapter 14, "From Natural Selection to Plate Tectonics," which offers a personal and historical exploration of the connections between Darwin's travel and science and the development of