Before and after Darwin : origins, species, cosmogonies, and ontologies /: origins, species, cosmogonies, and ontologies. (2023)
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- Title:
- Before and after Darwin : origins, species, cosmogonies, and ontologies /: origins, species, cosmogonies, and ontologies. (2023)
- Main Title:
- Before and after Darwin : origins, species, cosmogonies, and ontologies
- Further Information:
- Note: M.J.S. Hodge.
- Authors:
- Hodge, M. J. S (Michael Jonathan Sessions), 1940-
- Contents:
- Contents: Introduction; The Very Long Run: Origins and species before and after Darwin; Canguilhem and the history of biology. Cosmogonies and Ontologies After Buffon: 2 Cosmologies (theory of the Earth and theory of generation) and the unity of Buffon's thought; Lamarck's science of living bodies; Lamarck's great change of mind; The history of the Earth, life and Man: Whewell and palaetiological science; The universal gestation of nature: Chamber's Vestiges and Explanations. The Structure and Content of Darwinian Theory Since Darwin: The structure and strategy of Darwin's 'long argument'; Darwin's theory and Darwin's argument; Discussion: Darwin's argument in the Origin; Knowing about evolution: Darwin and his theory of natural selection; Generation and the origin of species (1837-1937): a historiographical suggestion; Biology and philosophy (including ideology): a study of Fisher and Wright; Natural selection as a causal, empirical and probabilistic theory; Index.
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- London : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2023
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 576.809
Evolution (Biology)
Cosmogony
Ontology - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781000939262
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781000945454
- Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references.
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