The Theory of Evolution and Its Impact
Year 2009 was the triumph of Darwin as a global superstar, spinning from the pop icon to the actual understanding to what make him a great innovator, able to give a turn to whole modern culture. Does all this activity mean evolution has lost its ability to excite fear and opposition? After such a de...
| Other Authors: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Milano
Springer Milan
2012, 2012
|
| Edition: | 1st ed. 2012 |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | |
| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Aldo Fasolo, Introduction: The Sand Walk (on the Darwin’s Steps)
- Pietro Corsi, Idola Tribus: Lamarck, Politics and Religion in the Early Nineteenth Century
- Ruse MIchael, Darwinism Past and Present: Is It Past Its “Sell-by” Date?
- Paolo Casini, Evolutionary Theory and Philosophical Darwinism
- Peter Weingart, Struggle for Existence: Selection, Retention and Extinction of a Metaphor
- Henrika Kuklick, The Theory of Evolution and Cultural Anthropology
- Manfred Bierwisch, The Concept of Evolution in Linguistics
- Alberto Piazza, Theory of Evolution and Genetics
- Giuseppina Barsacchi, Genes, Evolution and the Development of the Embryo
- Ferdinando Rossi, Evolutionary Mechanisms and Neural Adaptation
- Gerhard Roth, Is the Human Brain Unique?
- Giorgio Vallortigara, Aristotle and the Chicken: Animacy and the Origins of Beliefs
- Volker Gerhardt, Evolution: Remarks on the History of a Concept Adopted by Darwin
- Telmo Pievani, An Evolving Research Programme: The Structure of Evolutionary Theory from a Lakatosian Perspective