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Not by design : retiring Darwin's watchmaker
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Not by design : retiring Darwin's watchmaker

Autor: John O Reiss
Editorial: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2009.
Edición/Formato:  Libro : Publicación gubernamental estatal o provincial : Inglés (eng)Ver todas las ediciones y todos los formatos
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Since Darwin's "On the Origin of Species" was published, the argument of design is seeing a revival. This work tells how Darwin left the door open for this revival - and at the same time argues for a  Leer más

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Persona designada: Georges Cuvier, baron; Georges Cuvier
Tipo de material: Publicación gubernamental, Publicación gubernamental estatal o provincial
Tipo de documento: Libro/Texto
Todos autores / colaboradores: John O Reiss
ISBN: 9780520258938 0520258932
Número OCLC: 301798428
Descripción: xviii, 422 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contenido: Prolegomena --
The problem --
Philosophical background --
How did we get into this mess? : from Socrates and Lucretius to Cuvier and Darwin --
Design versus the Epicurean hypothesis : two thousand years of debate --
Materialism, teleology, and evolution in the Enlightenment --
Cuvier and the principle of the conditions for existence --
Darwin, natural theology, and the principle of natural selection --
Evolution in Mendelian populations : teleology gets mathematical --
Existence and the mathematics of selection : the adaptive landscape versus the fundamental theorem --
Population growth, genetic load, and the limits of selection --
Natural selection and genetic drift : their role in evolutionary change --
The conditions for existence and evolutionary biology --
Adaptedness, natural selection, and the conditions for existence --
How to talk about macroevolution --
The conditions for existence as a unifying concept in evolutionary biology --
Evolutionary biology and intelligent design.
Responsabilidad: John O. Reiss.

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"An important book that should be widely read and discussed."--American Scientist "An engaging read and is sure to stimulate much-needed discussion about the details of current evolutionary Leer más

 
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