Introduction

the sand walk (on the Darwin's steps)

Aldo Fasolo

1-10

Idola tribus

Lamarck, politics and religion in the early nineteenth century

Pietro Corsi

11-39

Darwinism past and present

is it past its "sell-by" date?

Michael Ruse

41-51

Evolutionary theory and philosophical Darwinism

Paolo Casini

53-68

Struggle for existence

selection, retention and extinction of a metaphor

Peter Weingart

69-82

The theory of evolution and cultural anthropology

Henrika Kuklick

83-102

The concept of evolution in linguistics

Manfred Bierwisch

103-117

Theory of evolution and genetics

Alberto Piazza

119-130

Genes, evolution and the development of the embryo

Giuseppina Barsacchi

131-158

Evolutionary mechanisms and neural adaptation

selective versus constructive strategies in the development and plasticity of the nervous system

Ferdinando Rossi

159-174

Is the human brain unique?

Gerhard Roth

175-187

Aristotle and the chicken

animacy and the origins of beliefs

Giorgio Vallortigara

189-199

Evolution

remarks on the history of a concept adopted by Darwin

Volker Gerhardt

201-210

An evolving research programme

the structure of evolutionary theory from a Lakatosian perspective

Telmo Pievani

211-228