This volume describes the content and discusses the history and origins of the three core commitments of Darwinism, examines the three critiques that challenge this Darwinian edifice and proposes a system for integrating these commitments and critiques into a structure of evolutionary thought.

The world's most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers a work of explanatory force unprecedented in our time--the history and origins of the three core commitments of classical Darwinism. 88 line illustrations. 4 tables.