The Eclipse of Darwinism
Title | The Eclipse of Darwinism PDF eBook |
Author | Peter J. Bowler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 320 |
Release | 1983 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9780801829321 |
In this pioneering study of the first major challenges to Darwinism, Peter J. Bowler examines the competing theories of evolution, identifies their intellectual origins, and describes the process by which the modern concept of evolution emerged. Describing the variety of influences that drove scientists to challenge Darwin's conclusions, Bowler reevaluates the influence of social forces on the scientific community and explores the broad philosophical, ideological, and social implications of scientific theories.
Evolution
Title | Evolution PDF eBook |
Author | Peter J. Bowler |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 493 |
Release | 2009-09-08 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0520261283 |
Since its original publication in 1989, Evolution: The History of an Idea has been recognized as a comprehensive and authoritative source on the development and impact of this most controversial of scientific theories. This twentieth anniversary edition is updated with a new preface examining recent scholarship and trends within the study of evolution.
Darwinism and the Linguistic Image
Title | Darwinism and the Linguistic Image PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen G. Alter |
Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2003-03-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780801872440 |
In the nineteenth century, philology—especially comparative philology—made impressive gains as a discipline, thus laying the foundation for the modern field of linguistics. In Darwinism and the Linguistic Image, Stephen G. Alter examines how comparative philology provided a genealogical model of language that Darwin, as well as other scientists and language scholars, used to construct rhetorical parallels with the common-descent theory of evolution.
Adaptation and Natural Selection
Title | Adaptation and Natural Selection PDF eBook |
Author | George Christopher Williams |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Pages | 335 |
Release | 2018-10-30 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0691185506 |
Biological evolution is a fact—but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. When Adaptation and Natural Selection was first published in 1966, it struck a powerful blow against those who argued for the concept of group selection—the idea that evolution acts to select entire species rather than individuals. Williams’s famous work in favor of simple Darwinism over group selection has become a classic of science literature, valued for its thorough and convincing argument and its relevance to many fields outside of biology. Now with a new foreword by Richard Dawkins, Adaptation and Natural Selection is an essential text for understanding the nature of scientific debate.
The Non-Darwinian Revolution
Title | The Non-Darwinian Revolution PDF eBook |
Author | Peter J. Bowler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
"Timely and cogent in its aims and arguments, it should prompt debate and discussion leading to fresh critical and historiographical insights concerning all those topics that historians of science, of society, and of culture associate with `Darwinism' and `evolutionism.'"-- British Journal of the History of Science.
Darwin Deleted
Title | Darwin Deleted PDF eBook |
Author | Peter J. Bowler |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2013-03-22 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0226068676 |
A history of science text imagining how evolutionary theory and biology would have been understood if Darwin had never published his "Origin of Species" and other works.--publisher summary.
Revisiting the Eclipse of Darwinism
Title | Revisiting the Eclipse of Darwinism PDF eBook |
Author | Michał Jakub Wagner |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 246 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 303172593X |