UID:
almahu_9949386395602882
Umfang:
1 online resource (344 pages) :
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illustrations
ISBN:
9781000220124
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1000220125
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9781000220322
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100022032X
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9781000220223
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1000220222
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9781003023869
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100302386X
Inhalt:
The book illustrates how Darwin's theory has evolved, about the development of the biological world before Darwin, and great changes that took place with the incorporation of statistics, and after Darwin's death of genetics and mathematics. The formation of Modern Synthesis', protein electrophoresis, Discovery of DNA opened new avenues for the study of evolution.
Anmerkung:
Wallace on The Evolution of Man.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Starting Point: Evolution versus Creation -- Contents -- Chapter 1: The Origin of Life -- Spontaneous Generation -- Experiments in the 20th Century -- Extra-terrestrial Origin of Life? -- The First Circle -- Chapter 2: Early Theories: Creation, Pre-formation and Order in the Biological World -- William Paley -- Carolus Linnaeus (Carl von Linne') and the Systema Naturae -- Georges-Louis Leclerc, Count de Buffon -- Charles Bonnet: Pre-formation and the Chain of Beings -- Chapter 3: More Theories
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Historical Background -- Erasmus Darwin -- James Hutton and "The Theory of the Earth" -- The Second Circle -- Chapter 4: Georges Cuvier and the Theory of Catastrophes -- Comparative Anatomy -- History of the Globe: Geological and Climate Changes -- Fossils -- The Catastrophes -- Classification -- Chapter 5: Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire: The Theory of Comparative Anatomy -- The Philosophy of Comparative Anatomy -- The Unified Body Plan -- The Conflict with Cuvier -- Other Scientific Contributions -- Chapter 6: Jean Baptiste de Lamarck: The Theory of Descent -- His Life -- Contribution to Biology
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Zoological Philosophy: Lamarck's Evolutionary Ideas -- The Mechanism of Species Change ("Transmutation") -- Classification -- Lines of Descent: The Earliest Phylogeny -- Cuvier's Eulogy for Lamarck -- Later Appreciation (1876) -- Chapter 7: Charles Lyell -- "The Father of Geology" -- Biographical Notes -- Geology, Fossils, and Time: "The Principles of Geology" -- Changes of the Surface of the Earth -- Lyell and Lamarck: Creation versus Transmutation -- Lyell and Darwin -- Fixity of Species versus Transmutation -- Faunal Changes in Successive Geological Strata -- Creation, Time, and Ecology
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The Effect of Man on the Environment and Species Diversity -- The Third Circle Charles Darwin, his Theory, his Supporters and Adversaries -- Chapter 8: Charles Darwin: The Formative Years -- Biographical Notes -- The Voyage of the "Beagle" -- The Galapagos Islands -- After the Voyage -- Evolution of the Theory of Natural Selection -- A.R. Wallace and the Ternate Paper, 1858 -- Darwin's Reaction -- Chapter 9: Evolution of the Theory of Natural Selection -- On Variation and Domestication -- "Special Creation" or Common Descent? -- The Final Form -- Speciation -- "Descent with Modification."
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Support from Embryology -- On the Evolution of Instincts -- Chapter 10: On the Same Track: Ideas about the History of Life before 1859 -- Forerunners of Darwin? -- Robert Chambers and "The Vestiges of Creation" -- The History of the World -- The Law of Development -- Reaction to the Book -- Chapter 11: Alfred Russel Wallace -- His Life -- The Malay Archipelago -- Spiritualism -- Wallace and the Theory of Evolution -- The Ternate Paper -- Wallace as a Darwinist: Further Contributions -- The Geographical Distribution of Animals -- Epilogue: The Modern Explanation -- Wallace's Line
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Wool, David. Milestones in the Evolving Theory of Evolution. Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, ©2020 ISBN 9780367903336
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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History.
DOI:
10.1201/9781003023869
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003023869
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