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David Stove
Darwinian
Fairytales
Selfish Genes, Errors of
Heredity, and Other Fables of
Evolution
To my wife Jess and our children Robert and
Judith
Darwinian Fairytales
DAVID STOVE
Avebury
Aldershot • Brookfield USA • Hong Kong • Singapore • Sydney
© Judith Stove 1995
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a
retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic,
mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of
the publisher.
Published by
Avebury
Ashgate Publishing Ltd
Gower House
Croft Road
Aldershot
Hants GUI 13HR
England
Ashgate Publishing Company
Old Post Road
Brookfield
Vermont 05036
USA
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Stove, David C.
Darwinian Fairytales. - (Avebury Series
in Philosophy) I. Title II. Series 116
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number:
95-
83037 ISBN 185972 306 3
Printed and bound in Great Britain by Ipswich Book Co. Ltd., Ipswich, Suffolk
Contents
Acknowledgements
Preface
Essay
I : Darwinism's Dilemma
vi
vii
1
13
31
39
53
79
Essay II : Where Darwin First Went Wrong about Man
Essay III : 'But what about War, Pestilence, and All That?'
Essay IV : Population, Privilege, and Malthus'Retreat
Essay V : A Horse in the Bathroom or the Struggle for Life
Essay VI : Tax and the Selfish Girl or Does
Altruism
Need Inverted
Commas?
Essay VII : Genetic Calvinism or Demons and Dawkins
Essay VIII: 'He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother' or Altruism and
Shared Genes
Essay IX : A New Religion
Essay X : Paley's Revenge or Purpose Regained
Essay XI : Errors of Heredity or The Irrelevance of Darwinism to
Human Life
118
137
171
178
212

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