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Originally published in 1915, Government by Natural Selection looks at the historical advancement of government through the lens of the Darwinian theory of natural selection. The book examines the history of government and its formation, right up until the early 20th century, when the book was first published. The book suggests that there is a link between Darwinian theory and the development of humans in societies, and that this in turn affected the formation of government over the course of history. The book uses not only Darwinian theory to examine history and the formation of government, but philosophers from both antiquity and the 19th century. This book provides a fascinating examination of politics and history through the application of science, and will be of interest to anthropologists, historians and academics of politics alike.
List of contents
Preface 1. Major Features of the Fossil Record and Their Implications for Evolutionary Rate Studies 2. The Timing of Major Evolutionary Innovations from the Origin of Life to the Origins of the Metaphya and Metazoa: The Geological Evidence 3. Rates and Modes of Evolution in the Mollusca 4. Rates of Evolution Among Palaeozoic Echinoderms 5. The Initial Radiation and Rise to Dominance of the Angiosperms 6. Selection or Constraint?: A Proposal on the Mechanism for Stasis 7. Development Pathways and Evolutionary Rates 8. Population Biology and Evolutionary Change 9. Comparative Rates of Molecular, Chromosomal and Morphological Evolution in Some Australian Vertebrates 10. Evolution of Gene Structure in Relation to Function 11. Popular Genetics, Evolutionary Rates and Neo-Darwinism 12. Genetic Systems and Evolutionary Rates 13. The Origin, Nature and Significance of Genetic Variation in Prokaryotes and Eukaryotes 14. Old and New Theories of Evolution 15. From Genome to Phenotype 16. The New Gene and its Evolution Index
About the author
Hugh Taylor
Summary
Originally published in 1915, Government by Natural Selection looks at the historical advancement of government through the lens of the Darwinian theory of natural selection.
