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The Spirit of System : Lamarck and Evolutionary Biology / Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Burkhardt, Jr., Richard W., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Biologistes--France--Biographies.
- Biologistes.
- Biologists--France--Biography.
- Biologists.
- Biology--Biography.
- Biology.
- Evolution (Biology)--Biography.
- Evolution (Biology).
- Evolution (Biology)--History.
- Evolution--Histoire.
- Evolution.
- Évolution (biologie)--Histoire.
- Évolution (biologie).
- Geschichte.
- Lamarckisme.
- Evolution--History.
- Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de, 1744-1829.
- SCIENCE / History.
- Local Subjects:
- Biologists--France--Biography.
- Evolution--History.
- Lamarck, Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet de, 1744-1829.
- SCIENCE / History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (325 p.): 1 Frontispiz
- Edition:
- 2nd printing 1995. Reprint 2014
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was a biological Janus, at once a highly competent taxonomist in a traditional mold and a bold, almost visionary, philosopher of nature who aspired to contrive an all-embracing "physics of the earth" by sheer force of intellect. Lamarck is generally remembered only for his ideas about the inheritance of acquired characters, ideas he did not originate or take special credit for, ideas that were only one part of his broad theory of evolution. In this, the first modern book-length study of Lamarck, Richard Burkhardt examines the origin and development of Lamarck's theory of organic evolution, the major theory prior to Darwin.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- FIGURES
- Introduction
- CHAPTER ONE Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Naturalist-Philosopher
- CHAPTER TWO The Background to Lamarck's Biological Thought
- CHAPTER THREE Eighteenth-Century Views of Organic Mutability
- CHAPTER FOUR The Preoccupations of the New Professor: Chemistry, Meteorology, and Geology
- CHAPTER FIVE Invertebrate Zoology and the Inspiration of Lamarck's Evolutionary Views
- CHAPTER SIX Lamarck's Theory of Evolution
- CHAPTER SEVEN The Frustrations and Consolations of the Naturalist-Philosopher
- NOTES, BIBLIOGRAPHY, INDEX
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-674-73136-0
- OCLC:
- 1013954192
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