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Darwinian Heritage

Inglese · Tascabile

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Representing the present rich state of historical work on Darwin and Darwinism, this volume of essays places the great theorist in the context of Victorian science. The book includes contributions by some of the most distinguished senior figures of Darwin scholarship and by leading younger scholars who have been transforming Darwinian studies. The result is the most comprehensive survey available of Darwin's impact on science and society.

Originally published in 1986.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.


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Edited by David Kohn


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Representing the present rich state of historical work on Darwin and Darwinism, this volume of essays places the great theorist in the context of Victorian science. The book includes contributions by some of the most distinguished senior figures of Darwin scholarship and by leading younger scholars who have been transforming Darwinian studies. The

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"The anthology does more than incorporate scholarship of the past and is more than a comprehensive monument of present scholarship. It also programs future studies."---Charles S. Blinderman, Victorian Studies

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Autori David Kohn
Con la collaborazione di David Kohn (Editore)
Editore Princeton University Press
 
Lingue Inglese
Contenuto Libro
Forma del prodotto Tascabile
Data pubblicazione 14.07.2014
Categoria Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari
Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali
 
EAN 9780691604596
ISBN 978-0-691-60459-6
Numero di pagine 1’152
 
Serie Princeton Legacy Library > 10
Princeton Legacy Library
Categorie Charles Darwin, Ernst Haeckel, Science: general issues, Evolution, SCIENCE / General, intelligent design, Thomas Henry Huxley, Racism, Herbert Spencer, On human nature, Philosophy of Biology, Natural selection, Social Darwinism, Richard Owen, Utilitarianism, Disenchantment, eugenics, Darwinism, Lamarckism, neo-Darwinism, Creation Science, Contemporary Society, Speciation, Rudolf Erich Raspe, Superiority (short story), The Philosopher, E. O. Wilson, Inbreeding, Phrenology, the selfish gene, Ad hoc hypothesis, The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex, Catastrophism, Erasmus Darwin, Malthusianism, J. B. S. Haldane, Negative Capability, William Bateson, Orthogenesis, The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection, Man's Place in Nature, Victoria Institute, The eclipse of Darwinism, Scriptural geologist, C. Lloyd Morgan, recapitulation theory, Adaptation and Natural Selection, The Theory of Evolution, Asa Gray, Zoonomia, Emotion in animals, Mendelian inheritance, Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation, Oscar Hertwig, William Paley, Pangenesis, August Weismann, theistic evolution, Transmutation of species, Pachydermata, Development of Darwin's theory, Evolution of dominance, Quantum evolution, Evolution as fact and theory, Objections to evolution, Level of support for evolution, Fisher's fundamental theorem of natural selection, Cope's rule, Henry Baker Tristram, The Structure of Science, Modern evolutionary synthesis, Hugo de Vries
 

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