Rereading Darwin's Origin of Species

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Beschreibung

Widely seen as evolution's founding figure, Charles Darwin is taken by many evolutionists to be the first to propose a truly modern theory of evolution. Darwin's greatness, however, has obscured the man and his work, at times even to the point of distortion.

Accessibly written, this book presents a more nuanced picture and invites us to discover some neglected ambiguities and contradictions in Darwin's masterwork. Delisle and Tierney show Darwin to be a man who struggled to reconcile the received wisdom of an unchanging natural world with his new ideas about evolution. Arguing that Darwin was unable to break free entirely from his contemporaries' more traditional outlook, they show his theory to be a fascinating compromise between old and new.

Rediscovering this other Darwin - and this other side of On the Origin of Species - helps shed new light on the immensity of the task that lay before 19th century scholars, as well as their ultimate achievements.

Über den Autor

Richard G. Delisle is Associate Professor in Liberal Education at the University of Lethbridge, Canada.

Zusammenfassung

Accessibly written and easily understood - a nice entry point to Darwin's work and to evolutionary biology more broadly

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The Two Sides of Darwin
Part One The Charles Darwin We Think We All Know
1 A Primer of Evolution's Complexities
2 What Time Selected from Darwin: The Standard View
Part Two Charles Darwin and the Static Worldview
3 The Tree That Hides the Forest: Charles Darwin's "Tree of Life"
4 Divergence: A Geometry That Shatters Creative Time and Novelty
5 A Cyclical World in Equilibrium
6 Natural Selection: The Core of Darwin's Theory?
Part Three Charles Darwin Viewed in Piecemeal Fashion
7 When So-Called New Ideas Hide Old Ones
Conclusion: Back to the Future
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2023
Genre:	Importe , Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781350259768
ISBN-10:	1350259764
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Delisle, Richard G. Tierney, James
Redaktion:	Holmes, John
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury 3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 10 mm
Von/Mit:	Richard G. Delisle (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	24.08.2023
Gewicht:	0,272 kg