Books by Paul Lawrence Farber

By the mid-nineteenth century, ornithology had become a scientific discipline with international experts, a large empirical base, and a rigorous methodology of watching and cataloging.

By focusing on three upsurges of interest in evolutionary ethics this book describes a century-old philosophical hope: that universal ethical and social imperatives are built into human nature and can be discovered through knowledge of evolutionary theory.

Many naturalists are drawn, consequently, to deeper philosophical and ethical issues: What is the extent of our ability to understand nature? And, understanding nature, will we be able to preserve it? Naturalists question the meaning of the order they discover and ponder our moral responsibility for it."-from the Introduction