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Evolution The History of an Idea. 20th Anniversary. With a New Preface

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Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

08.09.2009

Abbildungen

8 b-w photographs, 28 line illustrations

Verlag

University of California Press

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496

Maße (L/B/H)

22,7/15,4/3,4 cm

Gewicht

678 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-520-26128-0

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

08.09.2009

Abbildungen

8 b-w photographs, 28 line illustrations

Verlag

University of California Press

Seitenzahl

496

Maße (L/B/H)

22,7/15,4/3,4 cm

Gewicht

678 g

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-0-520-26128-0

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Libri GmbH
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DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Evolution
  • List of Illustrations
    Preface to the Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition
    Preface to the First Edition

    1. THE IDEA OF EVOLUTION: ITS SCOPE AND IMPLICATIONS
    The Old Worldview and the New
    The Possibilities of Change
    The Nature of Science
    The Historian's Problems

    2. THE PRE-EVOLUTIONARY WORLDVIEW
    Human History
    Theories of the Earth
    The Meaning of Fossils
    Natural Theology
    The New Natural History
    The Problem of Generation

    3. EVOLUTION IN THE ENLIGHTENMENT
    Human Nature
    The Origin of Society
    The History of the Earth
    The Chain of Being
    The New Classification
    The New Theories of Generation
    The Materialists
    The First Transmutationists

    4· NATURE AND SOCIETY, 1800-1859
    The Invention of Progress
    The Framrwork of Science
    Georges Cuvier: Fossils and the History of Life
    Catastrophism and Natural Theology in Britain
    The Philosophical Naturalists
    Radical Science
    The Principle of Uniformity
    The Vestiges of Creation

    5· THE DEVELOPMENT OF DARWIN'S THEORY
    Darwin's Early Career
    The Crucial Years: 1836-1839
    Development of the Theory, 1840-1859
    Wallace and Publication of the Theory

    6. TiHE RECEPTION OF DARWIN'S THEORY
    The Foundations of Darwinism
    The Scientific Debate
    Darwinism and Design
    Human Origins
    Evolution and Progress

    7· THE ECLIPSE Of DARWINISM:
    SCIENTIFIC EVOLUTIONISM, 1875-1925
    Reconstructing the History of Life
    The Age of the Earth
    Neo-Lamarckism
    Orthogenesis
    Neo-Darwinism
    Mendelism and the Mutation Theory

    8. EVOLUTION, SOCIETY, AND CULTURE, 1875-1925
    The Missing Link
    The Origins of Culture and Society
    Evolution and Race
    Social EcJOlutionism
    Biological Determinism
    Neo-Lamarckism and Society
    Evolution and Philosophy
    Evolution and Religion

    9· THE EVOLUTIONARY SYNTHESIS
    Population Genetics
    The Modern Synthesis
    The Origin of Life
    Wider Implications of the Synthesis

    1O. MODERN DEBATES AND DEVELOPMENTS
    The History of Life
    Human Origins
    Sociobiology and Ultra-Darwinism
    Opponents of Ultra- Darwinism
    Anti-Darwinians
    Darwinism not Scientific?
    Creationism

    Bibliography
    Index