Understanding Evolution in Darwin's "Origin" : The Emerging Context of Evolutionary Thinking /
This book aims to encourage the reading of "On the Origin of Species" and to include it in the teaching of evolution. With a comprehensive overview of the development of Darwin's theory, the volume provides relevant aspects of Darwin's life and work in connection with the broader...
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| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2023. |
| Series: | History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences,
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Table of Contents:
- Part I. Learning and Practicing Natural Philosophy in a World with Changing Species Ideas
- Part II. Elaborating a Theory of Species Transmutation
- Part IIPreface: From Biology to Darwin
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Why Learn Evolution from Darwin
- PART I Transformation of Species, from the beginning
- Debates About Life's Origin and Adaptive Powers in the Early Nineteenth-Century
- The Darwinian not Too Strictly Balanced Arrangement Between Cuvier and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
- 04 An Amazing Journey: Darwin and the Fuegians
- Part II. Constructing a Theory
- Darwin's First Writings: From the Beagle Voyage to his Transmutation Notebooks (1837-1839) and Essay (1844)
- The Development of Darwin's Theory: From Natural Theology to Natural Selection
- "Great as immensity, deep as eternity:" What Could the Grandeur of Life Say About God's Existence, according to Darwin?
- Mr. Darwin's Beloved Barnacles: Using Cirripedes to Understand Evolution in Origin of Species
- Wallace, Darwin, and the Relationship Between Species and Varieties (1858)
- There Have Been Few Such Naturalists Before, But Still...: Darwin's Public Account of Predecessors
- You Too Can Find "Grandeur in this View of Life": A Linguistic Remedy for Resisting the Desire to Abandon Darwin's Origin of Species
- PART III Spreading the New Theory to the World
- How Breeders Work Their Magic
- Darwin's Ideas on Variation Under the Lens of Current Evolutionary Genetics
- The Two Faces of Natural Selection
- The Newton of the Blade of Grass
- How "Random" is Evolutionary Change?
- The Initial Difficulties of Darwin's Theory
- Darwin and the Instinct: Why Study Collective Behaviors Performed Without Knowledge of its Purposes?
- Darwin for and Against Hybridism (OE08 Hybridism)
- From Old Objections to Novel Explanations: Darwin on the Fossil Record
- "Seed! Seed! Seed!": Geographical Distribution in On the Origin of Species
- The Meaning of Classification, Morphology, Embryology, and Rudimentary Organs to the Theory of Descent with Modifications
- 23 The Good Old Habit of Summarizing the Main Ideas
- Part IV. Epilogue: What Came Next was Extraordinary
- 24 Continuities and Ruptures: Comparing Darwin's On the Origin of Species and the Modern Synthesis
- 25 From the Modern Synthesis to the Other (Extended, Super, Postmodern...) Syntheses.I. Launching a Theory into the World
- Part IV. Epilogue: What Next?.