History, Humanity and Evolution: Essays for John C. Greene

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James Richard Moore
Cambridge University Press, 03.10.2002 - 444 Seiten
History, Humanity and Evolution brings together thirteen original essays by prominent scholars in the history of evolutionary thought. The volume is intended both to represent the best of today's research in the field and also to celebrate the work of the distinguished historian, John C. Greene, whose historical writings have had a unique influence on this volume's contributors as well as the field as a whole. Using contemporary sources as diverse as medicine, literature, and natural history tableaux, and drawing on the resources of publishing history, feminist scholarship, and the histories of politics, sociology, and philosophy, the contributors offer new perspectives not only on familiar figures such as Erasmus and Charles Darwin, Lamarck, Chambers, Huxley, and Haeckel, but also on many lesser known participants in the evolutionary debates. The volume contains a fascinating introductory conversation with John C. Greene and an afterword by him that responds to the contributors' essays.
 

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A reading of Lamarcks distinction
71
Corporations corruption
99
The nebular hypothesis and the science of progress
131
Robert Chambers and Vestiges
165
Why Darwin gave up Christianity
195
The woman
253
Ideology evolution and lateVictorian agnostic
285
Ernst Haeckel Darwinismus and the secularization
311
Degeneration and orthogenesis
329
Darwinian religion
355
Persons organisms and primary qualities
375
Afterword
403
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