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From Babylon to Christianity: William Foxwell Albright on Myth, Folklore, and Christian Origins by ALTER, STEPHEN G.

“…The American Orientalist William F. Albright (1891–1971) is remembered as a leading voice of twentieth‐century “biblical archaeology,” a field that aimed to…”
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Mandeville's Ship: Theistic Design and Philosophical History in Charles Darwin's Vision of Natural Selection by Alter, Stephen G.

“…This essay examines the analogy of a savage observing a sailing ship found in the final chapter of Darwin’s Origin of Species, an image that summed up his…”
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Race, language, and mental evolution in Darwin's descent of man by Alter, Stephen G.

“…Charles Darwin was notoriously ambiguous in his remarks about the relationship between human evolution and biological race. He stressed the original unity of…”
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Separated at Birth: The Interlinked Origins of Darwin's Unconscious Selection Concept and the Application of Sexual Selection to Race by Alter, Stephen G.

“…This essay traces the interlinked origins of two concepts found in Charles Darwin's writings: "unconscious selection," and sexual selection as applied to…”
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“Curiously parallel”: Analogies of language and race in Darwin’s Descent of man. A reply to Gregory Radick by Alter, Stephen G.

“…In the second chapter of The descent of man (1871), Charles Darwin interrupted his discussion of the evolutionary origins of language to describe ten ways in…”
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Darwin and the linguists: the coevolution of mind and language, Part 2. The language–thought relationship by Alter, Stephen G.

“…This paper examines Charles Darwin’s idea that language-use and humanity’s unique cognitive abilities reinforced each other’s evolutionary emergence—an idea…”
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Darwin and the linguists: the coevolution of mind and language, Part 1. Problematic friends by Alter, Stephen G.

“…In his book The descent of man (1871), Charles Darwin paid tribute to a trio of writers (Hensleigh Wedgwood, F. W. Farrar, and August Schleicher) who offered…”
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The Advantages of Obscurity: Charles Darwin's Negative Inference from the Histories of Domestic Breeds by Alter, Stephen G.

“…In The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin famously accounted for the lack of fossil evidence in support of species evolution on the grounds that the fossil…”
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Darwin's Artificial Selection Analogy and the Generic Character of "Phyletic" Evolution by Alter, Stephen G.

“…This paper examines the way Charles Darwin applied his domestic breeding analogy to the practical workings of species evolution: that application, it is…”
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When All the Gods Trembled: Darwinism, Scopes, and American Intellectuals by Alter, Stephen G.

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Race, language, and mental evolution in Darwin's Descent of man by Alter, Stephen G

“…Charles Darwin was notoriously ambiguous in his remarks about the relationship between human evolution and biological race. He stressed the original unity of…”
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Evolution: The History of an Idea. Third Edition. By Peter J  Bowler. Berkeley (California): University of California Press . $24.95 (paper). xix + 464 p; ill.; index. ISBN: 0–520–23693–9. 2003 by Alter, Stephen G

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The Pitfalls of Comparative Context: Deweyan Democracy in Transatlantic Perspective by Alter, Stephen G.

“…Alter reviews "John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism" by Alan Ryan…”
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Science and Religion in the Era of William James. Volume 1: The Eclipse of Certainty, 1820-1880 . Paul Jerome Croce by Alter, Stephen G.

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Theoretical inertia in American sociology: The plausibility of William F. Ogburn's hypothesis of "cultural lag" by Alter, Stephen G

“…Sociologist William Fielding Ogburn's hypothesis of "cultural lag" was popular from the 1920's through the 1950's. The cultural lag hypothesis holds that an…”
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Theoretical inertia in American sociology: The plausibility of William F. Ogburn's hypothesis of "cultural lag" by Alter, Stephen G

“…Sociologist William Fielding Ogburn's hypothesis of "cultural lag" was popular from the 1920's through the 1950's. The cultural lag hypothesis holds that an…”
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Evolution: The History of an Idea.Third Edition by Alter, Stephen G

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CONKIN, "When All the Gods Trembled: Darwinism, Scopes, and American Intellectuals" (Book Review) by Alter, Stephen G

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Darwinism and the Linguistic Image: Language, Race, and Natural Theology in the Nineteenth Century by Alter, Stephen G

“…"Darwinism and the Linguistic Image: Language, Race, and Natural Theology in the Nineteenth Century" by Stephen G. Alter is reviewed…”
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The Pitfalls of Comparative Context: Deweyan Democracy in Transatlantic Perspective: Alan Ryan, "John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism" (Book Review) by Alter, Stephen G

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