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Natural selection : revisiting its explanatory role in evolutionary biology / Richard G. Delisle, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Evolutionary biology - new perspectives on its development ; 2524-7751 volume 3.
- Evolutionary biology - new perspectives on its development, 2524-7751 ; volume 3
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural selection.
- Evolution (Biology).
- Biology.
- Philosophy, Modern.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 482 pages) : illustrations (some color).
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Chapter 1: Introduction: In Search of a New Paradigm for the Development of Evolutionary Biology
- Part I: Crossing Perspectives about Evolution: Historians versus Biologists
- Chapter 2: Cathedrals, Corals and Mycelia: Three Analogies for the History of Evolutionary Biology
- Part II: Different Views of Charles Darwin
- Chapter 3: Guiding a Train of Discoveries: Charles Darwin, Charles Daubeny, and the Reception of Natural Selection, 1859-1865
- Chapter 4: Natural Selection as a Mere Auxiliary Hypothesis (sensu stricto I. Lakatos) in Charles Darwin's Origin of Species
- Chapter 5: Natural Selection in Ernst Haeckel's Legacy
- Part III: Rethinking a So-Called Intermediary Period
- Chapter 6: The Origins of Theoretical Developmental Genetics: Reinterpreting William Bateson's Role in the History of Evolutionary Thought
- Chapter 7: Recasting Natural Selection: Osborn and the Pluralistic View of Life
- Part IV: Other Evolutionary Syntheses
- ^Chapter 8: Little Evolution, BIG Evolution: Rethinking the History of Darwinism, Population Genetics, and the "Synthesis"
- Chapter 9: When Panpsychism Met Monism: Why Did the Philosopher Theodor Ziehen (1862-1950) Become a Crucial Figure for the Evolutionary Biologist Bernhard Rensch?
- Chapter 10: Inertia, Trend, and Momentum Reconsidered: G.G. Simpson, an Orthogeneticist?
- Chapter 11: The Concept of Natural Selection in Theodosius Dobzhansky. Its Development and Interpretation
- Part V: New Lights on Recent Developments
- Chapter 12: What's Natural About Natural Selection?
- Chapter 13: Natural Selection, Morphoprocess and a Logical Field of Evolutionary Concepts
- Chapter 14: Natural Selection as Agent of Evolutionary Change: A View from Paleoanthropology
- Chapter 15: Darwinism Without Selection? A Lesson from Cultural Evolutionary Theory
- Part VI: Teaching Evolution
- ^Chapter 16: Beyond Survival of the Fittest
- A Look at Students' Misconceptions about Natural Selection and Evolutionary Theory.
- Notes:
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 29, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Printed edition:
- ISBN:
- 9783030655365
- 3030655369
- Publisher Number:
- 99987208834
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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