Darwinism''s Struggle for Survival - Heredity and the Hypothesis of Natural Selection

Klappentext A rich and wide-ranging philosophical interpretation of the history of theoretical Darwinism. Zusammenfassung This book offers a philosophical interpretation of the history of theoretical Darwinism! from its origins and early problems in the nineteenth century to the genetic theory of natural selection developed between 1920 and 1960. It will appeal to philosophers and historians of science and to evolutionary biologists. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Preface; Introduction; Part I. The Darwinian Hypothesis: 1. Wallace and Darwin: a disagreement and its meaning; 2. The ontology of selection; 3. Jenkin's objections, Darwin's dilemma; Part II. Selection Faced with the Challenge of Heredity: Sixty Years of Principled Crisis: 4. Galton and the concept of heredity; 5. Post-Darwinian views of selection and regression; 6. The strategy of indirect corroboration: the case of mimicry; 7. The search for direct proof: biometry; 8. Establishing the possibility of natural selection: the confrontation of Darwinism and Mendelism; Part III. The Genetic Theory of Selection: 9. The place of selection in theoretical population genetics; 10. The empirical and the formal; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Jean Gayon, Jean (Universite De Paris Vii) Gayon, Gayon Jean
• Assisted by: Matthew Cobb (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.08.1998
• EAN: 9780521562508
• ISBN: 978-0-521-56250-8
• No. of pages: 536
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosoph; Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Evolution, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Evolution / Evolutionary biology