Evolution 2.0

This book of essays by leading scientists and philosophers, aims to showcase and explore how essential facets of Darwinian evolution manifest themselves in various disciplines. The chapters deal with the challenges, problems and repercussions of Darwinism in the social sciences, the humanities and evolutionary biology. This interdisciplinary volume is unique in that it considers the key notions of evolutionary theory in approaches to the mind, in the philosophy of biology, in the social sciences and the humanities, as well as challenges to Darwinism. The essays demonstrate the increasing recognition that the concepts of evolution play a crucial role in the natural and cultural world, with a sphere of influence far greater than Darwin might have imagined when he published Origin of Species in 1859.