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Unifying biology : the evolutionary synthesis and evolutionary biology /

Unifying Biology offers a historical reconstruction of one of the most important yet elusive episodes in the history of modern science: the evolutionary synthesis of the 1930s and 1940s. For more than seventy years after Darwin proposed his theory of evolution, it was hotly debated by biological sci...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smocovitis, Vassiliki Betty
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1996.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The exegesis of Unifying biology
  • History, theory, and practice. A "moving target" : historical background on the evolutionary synthesis ; Rethinking the evolutionary synthesis : historiographic questions and perspectives explored ; The new contextualism : science as discourse and culture
  • The narrative of Unifying biology. The narrative of Unifying biology : the evolutionary synthesis and evolutionary biology
  • Persistent problems. Reproblematizing the evolutionary synthesis ; Epilogue.