Charles Darwin's Incomplete Revolution

The Origin of Species and the Static Worldview

AvRichard G. Delisle

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Del 1 i serien Evolutionary Biology – New Perspectives on Its Development

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This book offers a thorough reanalysis of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, which for many people represents the work that alone gave rise to evolutionism.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-08-14
Mått:155 x 235 x 16 mm
Vikt:441 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Evolutionary Biology – New Perspectives on Its Development
Antal sidor:276
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030172053

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Richard G. Delisle owns a PhD in paleoanthropology (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) and a PhD in philosophy (University of Montreal, Canada). He teaches evolutionary biology and history/philosophy of science in the programs of archaeology, philosophy, and liberal education at the University of Lethbridge (Canada). His research interest focuses on the multidisciplinary quest of understanding evolutionary studies under the intimate light of its past and current developments.

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Chapter 1: Introduction: Darwin in the Larger Intellectual Context.- Part I: Historical Shallowness.- Chapter 2: Evolution in a Fully Constituted World.- Part II: To Travel in Geographical Space is to Travel in Geological Time.- Chapter 3: Imposing Order Upon Complexity: Divergence Forward in Time (Origin, chap. 1-5, 8).- Chapter 4: The Wild Power of Natural Selection: Vertical Evolution, Analogies, and Imaginary Scenarios (Origin, chap. 6-7).- Chapter 5: An Attempt at Taming Natural Selection With Convergence Backward in Time, Part I (Origin,chap. 11-12).- Chapter 6: An Attempt at Taming Natural Selection With Convergence Backward inTime, Part II (Origin, chap. 13).- Part III: Evolutionary Dynamics.- Chapter 7: Cyclicity, Evolutionary Equilibrium, and Biological Progress.- Part IV: A Question of Methods.- Chapter 8: Methodologies for a World Already Revealed.- Chapter 9: Conclusion: A restored unity in the Origin of Species?.