Jonathan Howard (Professor of Cell Genetics, Institute of Genetics,

Darwin

A Very Short Introduction

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Darwin's theory that our ancestors were apes caused a furore in the scientific world and outside it when The Origin of Species was published in 1859. Analysing Darwin's major insights and arguments, this work reasserts the importance of his work for the development of modern biology.

---

Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Very Short Introductions
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 178mm x 114mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 134g
• ISBN-13: 9780192854544
• ISBN-10: 0192854542
• Artikelnr.: 21305101

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Howard was Head of the Department of Immunology at the Babraham Institute, near Cambridge, and is now Professor of Cell Genetics at the Institute for Genetics, University of Cologne, Germany. He is a fellow of the Royal Society.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
1: Darwin's life
2: The foundations of Darwinism
3: Natural selection and the origin of species
4: The evidence for evolution by natural selection
5: Sex, variation, and heredity
6: Man
7: Perfection and progress
8: Darwinism and ideology
9: Darwin as a scientist: an evaluation
Further Reading
Index