Evolution: Genesis and Revelations: With Readings from Empedocles to WilsonSUNY Press, 1 ม.ค. 1981 - 339 หน้า In this comprehensive history of evolutionism, C. Leon Harris has combined primary source readings with clear, pertinent background information, to provide a solid basic understanding of the ways scientists have arrived at today's views of evolution. Harris describes the major contributors to the theory of evolutionism, placing each in the context of the general cultural influences to which he was exposed. Each chapter also contains an explanation of the philosophical basis of the scientific approach of the period in question. A lengthy bibliography provides direction for further reading on this important and timely subject. |
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Prescientific Concepts of the Origin of Species Genesis | 6 |
The Evolution Of Genesis | 8 |
Genesis Chapters 1 and 2 | 11 |
The Origin of Specious Arguments | 16 |
The Origin of Science Ancient Greece | 29 |
The PreSocratic PhilosopherScientists | 30 |
Socrates | 33 |
Plato | 34 |
The Illusion Of Method In Scientific Creativity | 120 |
The Genesis of Evolutionism The British Phase | 124 |
Wells | 128 |
Matthew | 129 |
Other PreDarwinian Evolutionists | 132 |
E Darwin from Zoonomia | 134 |
Wells from Account of a Female of the White Race of Mankind | 138 |
Matthew from On Naval Timber and Aboriculture | 140 |
Aristotle | 35 |
Epicurus | 41 |
Lucretius | 42 |
Empedocles six fragments | 43 |
Aristotle from History of Animals | 45 |
Lucretius from On the Nature of Things | 48 |
Instructions For The Postscientific Age | 52 |
The Infanticide of Science Rome and the Middle Ages | 57 |
Augustine And The Dark Ages | 60 |
Thomas Aquinas And The Late Middle Ages | 62 |
Augustine from The City of God | 65 |
Thomas Aquinas from Summa Theologica | 67 |
Close Encounters Of The Absurd Kind | 72 |
Born Again the Revival of Science in the Renaissance | 80 |
Bacon | 82 |
Descartes | 84 |
Redi | 86 |
Bacon from Novum Organum | 87 |
Descartes from Discourse on Method | 90 |
Redi from Experiments on the Generation of Insects | 93 |
The Uses And Limitations Of Scientific Methods | 96 |
The Genesis of Evolutionism The French Phase | 103 |
Maupertuis | 105 |
Diderot | 107 |
Lamarck | 109 |
Maupertuis from the Earthly Venus | 113 |
Diderot from Thoughts on the Interpretation of Nature | 115 |
Lamarck from Zoological Philosophy | 116 |
Rhyme And Reason | 144 |
Darwin and Wallace Evolutionary Convergence | 152 |
Childhood | 153 |
Education | 154 |
Voyages | 156 |
The Conception Of Evolution By Natural Selection | 160 |
Darwin and Wallace On the Tendency of Species to Form Varieties and on the Perpetuation of Varieties and Species by Natural Means of Selection | 171 |
An Axiom To Grind | 188 |
Darwinism is Dead Long Live NeoDarwinism | 193 |
Weismann | 195 |
Mendel | 197 |
Haldane | 202 |
Darwin from The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication | 207 |
Weismann from Essays upon Heredity and Kindred Biological Problems | 209 |
Mendel from Experiments on Plant Hybrids | 212 |
Haldane from The Causes of Evolution | 224 |
The Art Of Science | 228 |
Modern Times Marxism Lysenkoism and Sociobiology | 232 |
Lysenko | 236 |
Wilson | 241 |
Lysenko from The Science of Biology Today | 251 |
Wilson from Sociobiology | 258 |
Getting Bad Marx In Science | 262 |
Notes | 266 |
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Evolution: Genesis and Revelations: With Readings from Empedocles to Wilson C. Leon Harris ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 1981 |
Evolution: Genesis and Revelations: With Readings from Empedocles to Wilson C. Leon Harris ชมบางส่วนของหนังสือ - 1981 |
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