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| Author | : Michael Ruse |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 583 |
| Release | : 2013-02-28 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521195317 |
This volume is a comprehensive reference work on the life, labors, and influence of the great evolutionist Charles Darwin. With more than sixty essays written by an international group representing the leading scholars in the field, this is the definitive work on Darwin. It covers the background to Darwin's discovery of the theory of evolution through natural selection, the work he produced and his contemporaries' reactions to it, and evaluates his influence on science in the 150 years since the publication of Origin of Species. It also explores the implications of Darwin's discoveries in religion, politics, gender, literature, culture, philosophy, and medicine, critically evaluating Darwin's legacy. Fully illustrated and clearly written, it is suitable for scholars and students as well as the general reader. The wealth of information it provides about the history of evolutionary thought makes it a crucial resource for understanding the controversies that surround evolution today.
| Author | : John Van Wyhe |
| Publisher | : World Scientific |
| Total Pages | : 206 |
| Release | : 2014-05-27 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9814583995 |
Charles Darwin's years as a student at the University of Cambridge were some of the most important and formative of his life. Thereafter he always felt a particular affection for Cambridge. For a time he even considered a Cambridge professorship as a career and sent three of his sons there to be educated. Unfortunately the remaining traces of what Darwin actually did and experienced in Cambridge have long remained undiscovered. Consequently his day-to-day life there has remained unknown and misunderstood. This book is based on new research, including newly discovered manuscripts and Darwin publications, and gathers together recollections of those who knew Darwin as a student. This book therefore reveals Darwin's time in Cambridge in unprecedented detail.
| Author | : Kostas Kampourakis |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2014-04-03 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1107034914 |
Bringing together conceptual obstacles and core concepts of evolutionary theory, this book presents evolution as straightforward and intuitive.
| Author | : Michael Jonathan Sessions Hodge |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 565 |
| Release | : 2009-03-05 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0521884756 |
This volume provides the reader with clear, lively and balanced introductions to the most recent scholarship on Darwin and his intellectual legacies.
| Author | : Jeroen C. J. M. van den Bergh |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 575 |
| Release | : 2018-10-18 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 1108470971 |
A complete account of evolutionary thought in the social, environmental and policy sciences, creating bridges with biology.
| Author | : Michael Ruse |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 424 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0521870798 |
This Companion commemorates the 150th anniversary of the publication of the Origin of Species and examines its main arguments. Drawing on the expertise of leading authorities in the field, it also provides the contexts - religious, social, political, literary, and philosophical - in which the Origin was written.
| Author | : Roger M. White |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 261 |
| Release | : 2021-11-04 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1108851657 |
In On the Origin of Species (1859), Charles Darwin put forward his theory of natural selection. Conventionally, Darwin's argument for this theory has been understood as based on an analogy with artificial selection. But there has been no consensus on how, exactly, this analogical argument is supposed to work – and some suspicion too that analogical arguments on the whole are embarrassingly weak. Drawing on new insights into the history of analogical argumentation from the ancient Greeks onward, as well as on in-depth studies of Darwin's public and private writings, this book offers an original perspective on Darwin's argument, restoring to view the intellectual traditions which Darwin took for granted in arguing as he did. From this perspective come new appreciations not only of Darwin's argument but of the metaphors based on it, the range of wider traditions the argument touched upon, and its legacies for science after the Origin.
| Author | : Dov Ospovat |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 324 |
| Release | : 1995-04-28 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521469401 |
In this highly acclaimed book, Ospovat shows that Darwin's views changed radically from his first formulation of evolution to the publication of the full theory in 1859.
| Author | : Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 406 |
| Release | : 1870 |
| Genre | : Evolution |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Charles Darwin |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 87 |
| Release | : 2005-09-06 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1101651164 |
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