Author: Edward Drinker CopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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The Origin of the Fittest
Author: Edward Drinker CopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Evolution
Languages : en
Pages : 526
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The Origin of the Fittest: Essays on Evolution
Author: Edward D. CopePublisher:
ISBN: 9783337908492
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 524
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The Origin of the Fittest
Author: Edward Drinker CopePublisher: Sagwan Press
ISBN: 9781298953391
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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The Origin of the Fittest
Author: Edward Drinker CopePublisher:
ISBN: 9781332917518
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 524
Book Description
Excerpt from The Origin of the Fittest: Essays on Evolution The twenty-one essays which constitute the present volume represent the re ections which have suggested themselves to the author while engaged in special zoological and paleontological studies. While the original work of the author has been nearly confined to the vertebrata, his studies have taken in a wider range. These have convinced him that the conclusions derived from the investigations of the vertebrata are applicable to inverte brate animals and to plants. In reaching conclusions, the author has endeavored to avoid, as much as possible, any bias due to the in uence of any opinions whatsoever on evolution and allied subjects which were already in the field. He therefore avoided, for a time, reading the works of the masters of the subject, apply ing to them for confirmation or criticism only after the publication of his own results. It is therefore true that the generalizations contained in these essays have been worked out by the author from such material as has come under his own eyes, with little other aid. It has also followed that not a few of the conclusions he has reached were not new. On the other hand, some of the principles enunciated had not been clearly stated prior to the publication of these essays. In some cases the work accomplished has con sisted in throwing well-known principles into accord with each other, as in the case of the laws of acceleration and retardation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
The Origin of the Fittest
Author: E D 1840-1897 CopePublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781016513388
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Origin of the Fittest
Author: E. d. 1840-1897 CopePublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781295887255
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 528
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The Origin of the Fittest
Author: Edward Drinker CopePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
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Evolution
Author: Peter J. BowlerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520236939
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 485
Book Description
The comprehensive and authoritative source on the development and impact on one of the most controversial of scientific theories.
The Evolution Controversy in America
Author: George E. WebbPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813182727
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 457
Book Description
A comprehensive intellectual history of America’s century-old debate over teaching evolution in public schools. For well over a century, the United States has witnessed a prolonged debate over the teaching of organic evolution in the nation’s public schools. The controversy that began with the publication of Darwin’s Origin of the Species had by the 1920s expanded to include theologians, politicians, and educators. The Scopes trial of 1925 provided the growing antievolution movement with significant publicity and led to a decline in the teaching of evolution. In The Evolution Crisis in America, George E. Webb details how efforts to improve science education in the wake of Sputnik resurrected antievolution sentiment and led to the emergence of “creation science” as the most recent expression of that sentiment. Creationists continue to demand “balanced treatment” of theories of creation and evolution in public schools, even though their efforts have been declared unconstitutional in a series of federal court cases. Their battles have been much more successful at the grassroots level, garnering support from local politicians and educators. Webb attributes the success of creationists primarily to the lack of scientific literacy among the American public.
Keywords in Evolutionary Biology
Author: Evelyn Fox KellerPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674503137
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
In science, more than elsewhere, a word is expected to mean what it says, nothing more, nothing less. But scientific discourse is neither different nor separable from ordinary language--meanings are multiple, ambiguities ubiquitous. Keywords in Evolutionary Biology grapples with this problem in a field especially prone to the confusion engendered by semantic imprecision. Written by historians, philosophers, and biologists--including, among others, Stephen Jay Gould, Diane Paul, John Beatty, Robert Richards, Richard Lewontin, David Sloan Wilson, Peter Bowler, and Richard Dawkins--these essays identify and explicate those terms in evolutionary biology which, though commonly used, are plagues by multiple concurrent and historically varying meanings. By clarifying these terms in their many guises, the editors Evelyn Fox Keller and Elisabeth Lloyd hope to focus attention on major scholarly problems in the field--problems sometimes obscured, sometimes reveals, and sometimes even created by the use of such equivocal words. "Competition," "adaptation," and "fitness," for instance, are among the terms whose multiple meaning have led to more than merely semantic debates in evolutionary biology. Exploring the complexity of keywords and clarifying their role in prominent issues in the field, this book will prove invaluable to scientists and philosophers trying to come to terms with evolutionary theory; it will also serve as a useful guide to future research into the way in which scientific language works.