On the Origin of Species
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
9780199219223 (ISBN)
'can we doubt ... that individuals having any advantage, however slight, over others, would have the best chance of surviving and of procreating their kind?'
In the Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply held beliefs of the Western world. His insistence on the immense length of the past and on the abundance of life-forms, present and extinct, dislodged man from his central position in creation and called into question the role of the Creator. He showed that new species are achieved by natural selection, and that absence of plan is an inherent part of the evolutionary process.
Darwin's prodigious reading, experimentation, and observations on his travels fed into his great work, which draws on material from the Galapagos Islands to rural Staffordshire, from English back gardens to colonial encounters. The present edition provides a detailed and accessible discussion of his theories and adds an account of the immediate responses to the book on publication. The resistances as well as the enthusiasms of the first readers cast light on recent controversies, particularly concerning questions of design and descent.
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Dame Gillian Beer is Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. Her Darwin's Plots (1983; second edition 2000) was followed by Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter (1996). More recently she has been working on Carroll's Alice books in the context of nineteenth-century intellectual controversies and a new collection of her essays on literature and science is scheduled for 2008.
1.Contents2.Introduction3.Postscript4.Note on the Text5.Select Bibliography6.A Chronology of Charles Darwin7.On the Origin of Species8.Contents9.Introduction10.Chapter I: Variation Under Domestication11.Chapter II: Variation Under Nature12.Chapter III: Struggle For Existence13.Chapter IV: Natural Selection14.Chapter V: Laws Of Variation15.Chapter VI: Difficulties On Theory16.Chapter VII: Instinct17.Chapter VIII: Hybridism18.Chapter IX: On The Imperfection of The Geological Record19.Chapter X: On The Geological Succession of Organic Beings20.Chapter Xi: Geographical Distribution21.Chapter XII: Geographical Distribution—Continued22.Chapter XII: Mutual Affinities of Organic Beings: Morphology: Embryology: Rudimentary Organs23.Chapter XIV: Recapitulation And Conclusion24.Appendix 1: Register Of Writers Referred to In The Text Of The Origin25.Appendix 2: Glossary Of Principal Scientific Terms, Added in The Fifth Edition of The Origin26.Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 13.11.2008 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Oxford World's Classics |
| Zusatzinfo | one chart |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 196 mm |
| Gewicht | 296 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution | |
| ISBN-13 | 9780199219223 / 9780199219223 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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