Charles Darwin's Incomplete Revolution The Origin of Species and the Static Worldview

Charles Darwin's Incomplete Revolution The Origin of Species and the Static Worldview / by Richard G. Delisle.

This book offers a thorough reanalysis of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, which for many people represents the work that alone gave rise to evolutionism. Of course, scholars today know better than that. Yet, few resist the temptation of turning to the Origin in order to support it or reject...

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Main Author: Delisle, Richard G. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Series:Evolutionary Biology – New Perspectives on Its Development, 1
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Evolutionary biology.
Biology—History.
Modern philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction: Darwin in the Larger Intellectual Context
  • Part I: Historical Shallowness
  • Chapter 2: Evolution in a Fully Constituted World
  • Part II: To Travel in Geographical Space is to Travel in Geological Time
  • Chapter 3: Imposing Order Upon Complexity: Divergence Forward in Time (Origin, chap. 1-5, 8)
  • Chapter 4: The Wild Power of Natural Selection: Vertical Evolution, Analogies, and Imaginary Scenarios (Origin, chap. 6-7)
  • Chapter 5: An Attempt at Taming Natural Selection With Convergence Backward in Time, Part I (Origin,chap. 11-12)
  • Chapter 6: An Attempt at Taming Natural Selection With Convergence Backward in Time, Part II (Origin, chap. 13)
  • Part III: Evolutionary Dynamics
  • Chapter 7: Cyclicity, Evolutionary Equilibrium, and Biological Progress
  • Part IV: A Question of Methods
  • Chapter 8: Methodologies for a World Already Revealed
  • Chapter 9: Conclusion: A restored unity in the Origin of Species?.

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