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  1. Paul Lawrence Farber - Temptations of Evolutionary Ethics, Häftad. Tillgänglighet: Lägg i varukorg

    Temptations of Evolutionary Ethics

    Av Paul Lawrence Farber

    Häftad, 1998

    400 kr

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    Evolutionary theory tells us about our biological past; can it also guide us to a moral future? Paul Farber's compelling book describes a century-old philosophical hope held by many biologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and social thinkers: that universal ethical and social imperatives are …

  2. Margaret J. Osler, Paul Lawrence Farber - Religion, Science, and Worldview, Häftad. Tillgänglighet: Lägg i varukorg

    Religion, Science, and Worldview

    Essays in Honor of Richard S. Westfall

    Av Margaret J. Osler, Paul Lawrence Farber

    Häftad, 2002

    781 kr

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    This collection of original essays by his former graduate students and colleagues honors Richard S. Westfall, a highly influential scholar in the history of the physical sciences and their relations with religion. The book is divided into three parts that reflect Professor Westfall's scholarly …

  3. Paul Lawrence Farber - Discovering Birds, Häftad. Tillgänglighet: Lägg i varukorg

    Discovering Birds

    The Emergence of Ornithology as a Scientific Discipline, 1760-1850

    Av Paul Lawrence Farber

    Häftad, 1997

    430 kr

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    In Discovering Birds, Paul Lawrence Farber rejects the view that eighteenth-century natural history disappeared with the rise of nineteenth-century biology. In this penetrating case study of the history of ornithology, Farber demonstrates interesting continuities: as natural history evolved into …

  4. Paul Lawrence Farber - Finding Order in Nature, Häftad. Tillgänglighet: Lägg i varukorg

    Finding Order in Nature

    The Naturalist Tradition from Linnaeus to E. O. Wilson

    Av Paul Lawrence Farber

    Häftad, 2000

    418 kr

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    Since emerging as a discipline in the middle of the eighteenth century, natural history has been at the heart of the life sciences. It gave rise to the major organizing theory of life-evolution-and continues to be a vital science with impressive practical value. Central to advanced work in ecology, …

  5. Paul Lawrence Farber - Mixing Races, Häftad. Tillgänglighet: Tillfälligt slut

    Mixing Races

    From Scientific Racism to Modern Evolutionary Ideas

    Av Paul Lawrence Farber

    Häftad, 2011

    228 kr

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    This book explores changing American views of race mixing in the twentieth century, showing how new scientific ideas transformed accepted notions of race and how those ideas played out on college campuses in the 1960s. In the 1930s it was not unusual for medical experts to caution against …