Before and after Darwin : origins, species, cosmogonies, and ontologies /: origins, species, cosmogonies, and ontologies. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• 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.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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