The development of Darwin's theory : natural history, natural theology, and natural selection, 1838-1859 / Dov Ospovat
- Bib ID:
- 60054
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- Author:
- Ospovat, Dov
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- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1981
- xii, 301 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- 9780521238182
- 0521469406
- 9780521469401
- 0521238188
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- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Note on manuscript citations
- Introduction: Darwin and his fellow naturalists
- 1. Darwin and the biology of the 1830s: some parallels
- 2. Darwin before Malthus
- 3. Natural selection and perfect adaptation, 1838-1844
- 4. Part II of Darwin's work on species
- 5. Natural history after Cuvier: the branching conception of nature
- 6. Darwin and the branching conception
- 7. Classification and the 'principle of divergence'
- 8. The principle of divergence and the transformation of Darwin's theory
- 9. Natural selection and 'natural improvement'
- Conclusion: the development of Darwin's theory as a social progress
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
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- Originally published: 1981.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 278-290)
- Subject:
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- Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882
- Natural selection -- History
- Natural history -- History
- Biology -- History
- Naturalists -- England -- Biography
- Biografias de cientistas
- Sciences naturelles -- Histoire
- Biologie -- Histoire
- Naturalistes -- Angleterre -- Biographies
- Sélection naturelle -- Histoire
- Biologie
- Evolutietheorie
- Biology -- history
- Evolution
- Selection (Genetics)
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