Among the texts reviewed:
How thinking about the role of
mind in evolution progressed
over the past three lifetimes.
Mind in Evolution
as assessed through
reviews of major texts
Zoonomia, by Erasmus Darwin
Natural Theology, by William Paley
Philosophie zoologique, by Jean-
Baptiste Lamarck
Vestiges of the Natural History of
Creation, by Richard Chambers
System of Synthetic Philosophy, by Herbert Spencer
Darwin and the Darwinians, by Gertrude Himmelfarb
Origin of Species, 6th edition, by Charles Darwin
Social Environment and Moral Progress, by Alfred Wallace
Life and Habit, by Samuel Butler
Science and Philosophy of the Organism, by Hans Driesch
What is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger
Mind and Nature, by Gregory Bateson
Creative Evolution, by Henri Bergson
The Phenomenon of Man, by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Biological Principles, by J H Woodger
Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, by Ronald A. Fisher
The Selfish Gene, by Richard Dawkins
The Big Picture, by Sean Carroll
Return of the God Hypothesis, by Stephen C Meyer
Who’s in Charge? by Michael Gazzaniga
Evolution and the Humanities, by David Holbrook
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, by Edward O Wilson
Evolution: A View from the 21st Century, by James Shapiro
The Music of Life, by Denis Noble
Mind and Cosmos, by Thomas Nagel
The Great Evolution Mystery, by Gordon Rattray Taylor
Limitations of Evolutionary Theory,
by John Maynard Smith