History, Humanity and Evolution: Essays for John C. GreeneJames 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. |
Inhalt
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 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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