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12 produkter
Rereading the Fossil Record
The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline
Häftad, 2015
334 kr
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Rereading the Fossil Record presents the first-ever historical account of the origin, rise, and importance of paleobiology, from the mid-nineteenth century to the late 1980s. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, David Sepkoski shows how the movement was conceived and promoted by a small but …
Paleobiological Revolution
Essays on the Growth of Modern Paleontology
Av David Sepkoski, Michael Ruse
Häftad, 2015
376 kr
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The Paleobiological Revolution chronicles the incredible ascendance of the once-maligned science of paleontology to the vanguard of a field. With the establishment of the modern synthesis in the 1940s and the pioneering work of George Gaylord Simpson, Ernst Mayr, and Theodosius Dobzhansky, as well …
Catastrophic Thinking
Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene
Inbunden, 2020
343 kr
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We live in an age in which we are repeatedly reminded--by scientists, by the media, by popular culture--of the looming threat of mass extinction. We're told that human activity is currently producing a sixth mass extinction, perhaps of even greater magnitude than the five previous geological …
Catastrophic Thinking
Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene
E-bok, 2020
488 kr
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A history of scientific ideas about extinction that explains why we learned to value diversity as a precious resource at the same time as we learned to “think catastrophically” about extinction. We live in an age in which we are repeatedly reminded—by scientists, by the media, by popular culture—of …
Paleobiological Revolution
Essays on the Growth of Modern Paleontology
Av Michael Ruse, David Sepkoski
E-bok, 2009
815 kr
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The Paleobiological Revolution chronicles the incredible ascendance of the once-maligned science of paleontology to the vanguard of a field. With the establishment of the modern synthesis in the 1940s and the pioneering work of George Gaylord Simpson, Ernst Mayr, and Theodosius Dobzhansky, as well …
Catastrophic Thinking
Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene
Häftad, 2023
254 kr
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A history of scientific ideas about extinction that explains why we learned to value diversity as a precious resource at the same time as we learned to “think catastrophically” about extinction.We live in an age in which we are repeatedly reminded—by scientists, by the media, by popular culture—of …
Nominalism and Constructivism in Seventeenth-Century Mathematical Philosophy
Häftad, 2012
910 kr
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What was the basis for the adoption of mathematics as the primary mode of discourse for describing natural events by a large segment of the philosophical community in the seventeenth century? In answering this question, this book demonstrates that a significant group of philosophers shared the …
Nominalism and Constructivism in Seventeenth-Century Mathematical Philosophy
Inbunden, 2007
3864 kr
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What was the basis for the adoption of mathematics as the primary mode of discourse for describing natural events by a large segment of the philosophical community in the seventeenth century? In answering this question, this book demonstrates that a significant group of philosophers shared the …
Nominalism and Constructivism in Seventeenth-Century Mathematical Philosophy
E-bok, 2013
1074 kr
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What was the basis for the adoption of mathematics as the primary mode of discourse for describing natural events by a large segment of the philosophical community in the seventeenth century? In answering this question, this book demonstrates that a significant group of philosophers shared the …
Nominalism and Constructivism in Seventeenth-Century Mathematical Philosophy
E-bok, 2013
1051 kr
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What was the basis for the adoption of mathematics as the primary mode of discourse for describing natural events by a large segment of the philosophical community in the seventeenth century? In answering this question, this book demonstrates that a significant group of philosophers shared the …
Handbook of the Historiography of the Earth and Environmental Sciences
Av Elena Aronova, David Sepkoski m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
2516 kr
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This open access handbook aims to provide a definitive assessment of the historiography and the future of major themes and approaches within the history of the earth sciences, understood broadly. The volume is intended for a broad range of readers, including graduate students, other scholars, and …
Osiris, Volume 32
Data Histories
Av Aronova Elena, von Oertzen Christine m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
307 kr
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The history of data brings together topics and themes from a variety of perspectives in history of science: histories of the material culture of information and of computing, the history of politics on individual and global scales, gender and women's history, as well as the histories of many …
