The Eclipse of Darwinism

The Eclipse of Darwinism
Title The Eclipse of Darwinism PDF eBook
Author Peter J. Bowler
Publisher
Pages 320
Release 1983
Genre Nature
ISBN 9780801829321

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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

Evolution
Title Evolution PDF eBook
Author Peter J. Bowler
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 493
Release 2009-09-08
Genre Nature
ISBN 0520261283

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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

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

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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

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

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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

The Non-Darwinian Revolution
Title The Non-Darwinian Revolution PDF eBook
Author Peter J. Bowler
Publisher
Pages 264
Release 1988
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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"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

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

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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.

Darwinism Evolving

Darwinism Evolving
Title Darwinism Evolving PDF eBook
Author David J. Depew
Publisher Bradford Books
Pages 588
Release 1996
Genre Psychology
ISBN 9780262540834

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Darwinism Evolving examines the Darwinian research tradition in evolutionary biology from its inception to its turbulent present, arguing that recent advances in modeling the nonlinear dynamics of complex systems may well catalyze the next major phase of Darwinian evolutionism. While Darwinism has successfully resisted reduction to physics, the authors point out that it has from the outset developed and applied its core explanatory concept, natural selection, by borrowing models from dynamics, a branch of physics. The recent development of complex systems dynamics may afford Darwinism yet another occasion to expand its explanatory power. Darwinism's use of dynamical models has received insufficient attention from biologists, historians, and philosophers who have concentrated instead on how evolutionary biology has maintained its autonomy from physics. Yet, as Depew and Weber observe, it is only by recovering Darwin's own relationship to Newtonian models of systems dynamics, and genetical Darwinism's relationship to statistical mechanics and probability theory, that insight can be gained into how Darwinism can successfully meet the challenges it is currently facing. Drawing on recent scholarship in the history of biology, Depew and Weber bring the dynamical perspective to bear on a number of important episodes in the history of the Darwinian research tradition: Darwin's "Newtonian" Darwinism, the rise of "developmentalist" evolutionary theories and the eclipse of Darwinism at the turn of the century, Darwinism's struggles to incorporate genetics, its eventual regeneration in the modern evolutionary synthesis, challenges to that synthesis that have been posed in recent decades by molecular genetics, and recent proposals for meeting those challenges. A Bradford Book