Jean Gayon (Universite de Paris VII)

Darwinism's Struggle for Survival

Heredity and the Hypothesis of Natural Selection

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a philosophical interpretation of the history of theoretical Darwinism, from its origins and early problems in the nineteenth century to the genetic theory of natural selection developed between 1920 and 1960. It will appeal to philosophers and historians of science and to evolutionary biologists.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 536
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 31mm
• Gewicht: 860g
• ISBN-13: 9780521039673
• ISBN-10: 0521039673
• Artikelnr.: 22957381

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.