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The evolution of Darwinism : selection, adaptation, and progress in evolutionary biology /
No other scientific theory has had as tremendous an impact on our understanding of the world as Darwin's theory as outlined in his Origin of Species, yet from the very beginning the theory has been subject to controversy. The Evolution of Darwinism focuses on three issues of debate - the nature...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I. Selection: Darwin and natural selection
- The group selection controversy
- For whose good does natural selection work?
- Part II. Adaptation: Darwin (and others) on biological perfection
- Adaptation after Darwin
- Adaptation(ism) and its limits
- Part III. Progress: Darwin on evolutionary progress
- Evolutionary progress from Darwin to Dawkins
- Is evolution progressive?
- Human physical and mental evolution.