The Darwinian heritage : [incl. proceed. of the Charles Darwin Centenary Conference, Florence Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, June 1982]

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The Darwinian heritage : [incl. proceed. of the Charles Darwin Centenary Conference, Florence Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, June 1982] / ed. by David Kohn

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	Charles Darwin Centenary Conference (Other)
Other Authors:	Kohn, David (Editor)
Format:	Conference Proceeding Book
Language:	German
Published:	Princeton, NJ : Princeton Univ. Press [u.a.], 1985
Subjects:	Darwin, Charles Evolutionstheorie Aufsatzsammlung
Contents/pieces:	31 records

1. Darwin's Invertebrate program, 1826-1836 : preconditions for transformism

2. Darwin's early intellectual development : an overview of the "beagle voyage" (1831-1836)

3. Going to the limit : toward the construction of Darwin's theory (1832-1839)

4. Images of Darwin : a historiographic overview

5. Darwin on natural selection : a philosophical perspective

6. Adaptation and mechanisms of evolution after Darwin : a study in persistent controversies

7. Darwinism as a historical entity : a historiographic proposal

8. Darwin and the breeders : a social history

9. Darwin as a lifelong generation theorist

10. Owen and Darwin reading a fossil : "Macrauchenia" in a boney light

11. Three notes on the reception of Darwin's ideas on natural selection : (Henry Baker Tristram, Alfred Newton, Samuel Wilberforce)

12. Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace : two decades of debate over natural selection

13. Scientific attitudes to Darwinism in Britain and America

14. Darwin on animal behavior and evolution

15. The ascent of nature in Darwin's "Descent of man"

16. The "beagle" collector and his collections

17. Darwin and Russian evolutionary biology

18. The wider British context in Darwin's theorizing

19. Darwin's intellectual development : (commentary)

20. Darwinism today

21. Darwin's five theories of evolution

22. Darwinism in Germany, France and Italy

23. Darwinism "is" social

24. Darwin's reading and the fictions of development

25. Darwin and the world of geology

26. Darwin the young geologist

27. Darwin of down : the evolutionist as squarson-naturalist

28. Darwin and the expression of the emotions

29. Speaking of species : Darwin's strategy

30. Darwin's principle of divergence as internal dialogue

31. The immediate origins of natural selection