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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: rise of chance in evolutionary theory
    sub title: a pompous parade of arithmetic
  name:
    name part: Pence, Charles H.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ScienceDirect (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  genre: History
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: The Rise of Chance in Evolutionary Theory: A Pompous Parade of Arithmetic explores a pivotal conceptual moment in the history of evolutionary theory: the development of its extensive reliance on a wide array of concepts of chance. It tells the history of a methodological and conceptual development that reshaped our approach to natural selection over a century, ranging from Darwin's earliest notebooks in the 1830s to the early years of the Modern Synthesis in the 1930s. Far from being a "pompous parade of arithmetic, as one early critic argued, evolution transformed during this period to make these conceptual and technical tools indispensable. This book charts the role of chance in evolutionary theory from its beginnings to the earliest days of modern evolutionary theory, making it an ideal resource for evolutionary biologists, historians, philosophers, and researchers in science studies or biological statistics.
  table of contents: Chance governs the descent of a farthing: Charles Darwin -- The wonderful form of cosmic order: Francis Galton -- The only ultimate test of the theory of natural selection: The early years of biometry -- Here is the true gospel: Biometry after Mendelism -- Reconciling the biometrical conclusions: Evolution from 1906 to 1918 -- What natural selection must be doing: R.A. Fisher's early synthesis -- Conclusions, histriographical and philosophical.
  note: Charles H. Pence.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Evolution (Biology)
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Evolution (Biology)
  classification: QH361 .P46 2022
  classification: 576.8
  related item:
    identifier: (OCoLC)1273076084
  identifier: 9780323912921
  identifier: 0323912923
  identifier: 9780323912914
  identifier: 0323912915
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    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 211128
    record change date: 20260327171219.1
    record identifier: in00005768914
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng