Evolution: Genesis and Revelations: With Readings from Empedocles to WilsonSUNY Press, 1. jaan 1981 - 339 pages In this comprehensive history of evolutionism, C. Leon Harris has combined primary source readings with clear, pertinent background information, to provide a solid basic understanding of the ways scientists have arrived at today's views of evolution. Harris describes the major contributors to the theory of evolutionism, placing each in the context of the general cultural influences to which he was exposed. Each chapter also contains an explanation of the philosophical basis of the scientific approach of the period in question. A lengthy bibliography provides direction for further reading on this important and timely subject. |
Contents
Genesis | 6 |
Ancient Greece | 29 |
Aristotle from History of Animals | 45 |
Instructions for the PostScientific | 52 |
the Revival of Science in the Renaissance | 80 |
the French Phase | 103 |
The British Phase | 124 |
Evolutionary Convergence | 152 |
Long Live NeoDarwinism | 193 |
Marxism Lysenkoism and Sociobiology | 232 |
Notes | 266 |
| 302 | |
| 331 | |
Other editions - View all
Evolution: Genesis and Revelations: With Readings from Empedocles to Wilson C. Leon Harris No preview available - 1981 |
Common terms and phrases
adaptation Alfred Russel Wallace Anaximander animals argument Aristotle artificial selection axioms Bacon Barlow behavior believe Biol biologists biology birds body cause cells century changes chapter characters Charles Darwin Christians colour considered created creation creationists culture Darwin and Seward Darwinian deduction Descartes Diogenes Laertius earth Empedocles Epicurus Erasmus Darwin evolutionary evolutionism evolutionists example existence experiments explanation fact falsifiable fittest fossils fundamentalists gemmules genes Genesis genetics Gillispie Greek grub Gruber Haldane heredity Hist human hybrids idea individuals induction inheritance insects Lamarck laws living Lucretius Lyell Lysenko Malthus Marx Marxist Matthew Maupertuis Mendel method mutations natural selection neo-Darwinian neo-Darwinism notebooks occur offspring organism Origin of Species pangenesis parent philosophy plants population Press produced race reason reproductive result scientific theories scientists seeds social society sociobiology survival T. H. Huxley theory of evolution things thought tion traits Univ varieties Wallace Wallace's Weismann Wilson York