Jean Gayon

Darwinism's Struggle for Survival

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A rich and wide-ranging philosophical interpretation of the history of theoretical Darwinism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 536
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1014g
• ISBN-13: 9780521562508
• ISBN-10: 0521562503
• Artikelnr.: 21404018

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Part I. The Darwinian Hypothesis: 1. Wallace and Darwin: a disagreement and its meaning
2. The ontology of selection
3. Jenkin's objections, Darwin's dilemma
Part II. Selection Faced with the Challenge of Heredity: Sixty Years of Principled Crisis: 4. Galton and the concept of heredity
5. Post-Darwinian views of selection and regression
6. The strategy of indirect corroboration: the case of mimicry
7. The search for direct proof: biometry
8. Establishing the possibility of natural selection: the confrontation of Darwinism and Mendelism
Part III. The Genetic Theory of Selection: 9. The place of selection in theoretical population genetics
10. The empirical and the formal
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index.