Theory of Evolution and Its Impact

On behalf of Accademia delle Scienze of Torino

From the reviews: "This book would be an ideal resource for students looking to learn what the implications of evolutionary biology have been. ... I enjoyed reading The Theory of Evolution and Its Impact, and would recommend it to anyone with a serious interest in evolutionary biology or the philosophy of biology. ... I also note that this volume, as professional and scholarly as it was, was a consistently interesting, even fun, book to read. ... anyone interested in evolution will discover something genuinely new in these pages." (P. William Hughes, Philosophy in Review, Vol. XXXIII (6), 2013)

• Aldo Fasolo, Introduction: The Sand Walk (on the Darwin’s Steps).- Pietro Corsi, Idola Tribus: Lamarck, Politics and Religion in the Early Nineteenth Century.- Ruse MIchael, Darwinism Past and Present: Is It Past Its “Sell-by” Date?.- Paolo Casini, Evolutionary Theory and Philosophical Darwinism.- Peter Weingart, Struggle for Existence: Selection, Retention and Extinction of a Metaphor.- Henrika Kuklick, The Theory of Evolution and Cultural Anthropology.- Manfred Bierwisch, The Concept of Evolution in Linguistics.- Alberto Piazza, Theory of Evolution and Genetics.- Giuseppina Barsacchi, Genes, Evolution and the Development of the Embryo.- Ferdinando Rossi, Evolutionary Mechanisms and Neural Adaptation.- Gerhard Roth, Is the Human Brain Unique?.- Giorgio Vallortigara, Aristotle and the Chicken: Animacy and the Origins of Beliefs.- Volker Gerhardt, Evolution: Remarks on the History of a Concept Adopted by Darwin.- Telmo Pievani, An Evolving Research Programme: The Structure of Evolutionary Theory from a Lakatosian Perspective.