The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance
... which clearly had an impact on concept formation in the case of Lamarck and other early evolutionists. Yet, Aristotle had developed this concept on the basis of empirical observations of organisms. On the other hand, universally adopted ideologies are among the most uncontroversial of external facto ...
... which clearly had an impact on concept formation in the case of Lamarck and other early evolutionists. Yet, Aristotle had developed this concept on the basis of empirical observations of organisms. On the other hand, universally adopted ideologies are among the most uncontroversial of external facto ...
Haeckel: legacy of fraud to popularise evolution
... ‘… surely exerted more influence than the this context. One year before von Baer died it seems that works of any other scientist, including Darwin Darwin still did not even own his works.10 and Huxley (by Huxley’s own frank admission), The year 1859 saw the publication of Darwin’s The in convincing ...
... ‘… surely exerted more influence than the this context. One year before von Baer died it seems that works of any other scientist, including Darwin Darwin still did not even own his works.10 and Huxley (by Huxley’s own frank admission), The year 1859 saw the publication of Darwin’s The in convincing ...
The Darwinian Revolution as a knowledge
... neutrally, large transformations of scientific knowledge systems are not understood as a series of individual achievements by a few hero scientists. Instead, Historical Epistemology aims at embedding these individual contributions in their historical and social context. The goal of this embedding is ...
... neutrally, large transformations of scientific knowledge systems are not understood as a series of individual achievements by a few hero scientists. Instead, Historical Epistemology aims at embedding these individual contributions in their historical and social context. The goal of this embedding is ...
Charles Darwin and The Origin of Species
... called it ‘‘a long argument’’ in the final chapter, but it is also a straightforward one.2 Furthermore, Darwin’s intended audience for The Origin of Species was the general public. He wanted not only specialists to read the book, but also ordinary people. Because there were six editions of The Origi ...
... called it ‘‘a long argument’’ in the final chapter, but it is also a straightforward one.2 Furthermore, Darwin’s intended audience for The Origin of Species was the general public. He wanted not only specialists to read the book, but also ordinary people. Because there were six editions of The Origi ...
Darwin, Galton and the Statistical Enlightenment
... exclusively concerned with variation, starting with variation in domestic plants and animals. Darwin presented a wealth of information on dogs, pigeons, fruit and flowers. By starting with domestic populations he could exploit his readers’ knowledge of widespread experience in selective breeding and ...
... exclusively concerned with variation, starting with variation in domestic plants and animals. Darwin presented a wealth of information on dogs, pigeons, fruit and flowers. By starting with domestic populations he could exploit his readers’ knowledge of widespread experience in selective breeding and ...
Alfred Russel Wallace
... my Alfred Russel Wallace’s Theory of Intelligent Evolution: How Wallace’s World of Life Challenged Darwinism (2008); it was truly a prolegomenon to the present biography, which brings me to those helpful to the work at hand. My deepest heartfelt thanks goes to John West for his interest in and commi ...
... my Alfred Russel Wallace’s Theory of Intelligent Evolution: How Wallace’s World of Life Challenged Darwinism (2008); it was truly a prolegomenon to the present biography, which brings me to those helpful to the work at hand. My deepest heartfelt thanks goes to John West for his interest in and commi ...
Evolutionism : present approaches
... of transformation, owing to the complexifying properties of the fluids running through their tissues, and the adaptive changes brought about when habits changed in response to altered environments.” 17 Undoubtedly this idea of complexity can lead to the existence of some kind of hierarchy in the nat ...
... of transformation, owing to the complexifying properties of the fluids running through their tissues, and the adaptive changes brought about when habits changed in response to altered environments.” 17 Undoubtedly this idea of complexity can lead to the existence of some kind of hierarchy in the nat ...
Fleeming Jenkin and "The Origin of Species"
... In 1963, Peter Vorzimmer and a number of other historians began pointing out errors in this conventional interpretation.5Even their work, however, unfortunately shares with the orthodox interpretation many misreadings of what Jenkin said, and how Darwin reacted. This paper reassessesJenkin, his revi ...
... In 1963, Peter Vorzimmer and a number of other historians began pointing out errors in this conventional interpretation.5Even their work, however, unfortunately shares with the orthodox interpretation many misreadings of what Jenkin said, and how Darwin reacted. This paper reassessesJenkin, his revi ...
One - Svet logike
... Emma Wedgwood. They move to Upper Gower Street. Darwin’s Journal of Researches is published, now more usually known as The Voyage of the Beagle. The first of their ten children, William Erasmus Darwin, is born. 1842 The Darwins leave London and move to Down House in Kent. Darwin’s The Structure and ...
... Emma Wedgwood. They move to Upper Gower Street. Darwin’s Journal of Researches is published, now more usually known as The Voyage of the Beagle. The first of their ten children, William Erasmus Darwin, is born. 1842 The Darwins leave London and move to Down House in Kent. Darwin’s The Structure and ...
Henry David Thoreau: The Darwinian Naturalist
... sought the significance of Thoreau’s trilogy of wisdom generated from his “God man and nature” worship and dissected Darwin’s triangle of science drawn from his “when, where and how” approach to the creation. I worshiped nature through the words of Henry David Thoreau and patted her “thoroughly abou ...
... sought the significance of Thoreau’s trilogy of wisdom generated from his “God man and nature” worship and dissected Darwin’s triangle of science drawn from his “when, where and how” approach to the creation. I worshiped nature through the words of Henry David Thoreau and patted her “thoroughly abou ...
Descended from Darwin
... been a rebirth of Darwinism.” However, the Darwinism of Julian Huxley’s day was not that of his grandfather’s: “The Darwinism thus reborn is a modified Darwinism, since it must operate with facts unknown to Darwin; but it is still Darwinism in the sense that it aims at giving a naturalistic interpre ...
... been a rebirth of Darwinism.” However, the Darwinism of Julian Huxley’s day was not that of his grandfather’s: “The Darwinism thus reborn is a modified Darwinism, since it must operate with facts unknown to Darwin; but it is still Darwinism in the sense that it aims at giving a naturalistic interpre ...
Translating “natural selection”
... 1988a, 2005, 2011). This has been especially shown in the case of the Vestiges of Creation, a book anonymously published in 1844 by the Scottish publisher Robert E. Chambers, with an enduring success (Secord 2000). Other cases have been studied, like the reverend Baden Powell (Corsi 1988b) or the co ...
... 1988a, 2005, 2011). This has been especially shown in the case of the Vestiges of Creation, a book anonymously published in 1844 by the Scottish publisher Robert E. Chambers, with an enduring success (Secord 2000). Other cases have been studied, like the reverend Baden Powell (Corsi 1988b) or the co ...
Evolution by Jumps: Francis Galton and William Bateson
... weather maps of Europe and the British Isles. These Genetics 159: 1383–1392 ( December 2001) ...
... weather maps of Europe and the British Isles. These Genetics 159: 1383–1392 ( December 2001) ...
Darwin Collection - Science
... verbal flood to one of the biggest questions in all of biology: how life began. The only words he published in a book appeared near the end of On the Origin of Raw ingredients Species: “Probably all the organic beings which Life—or at least life as we know it—appears to have ever lived on this earth ...
... verbal flood to one of the biggest questions in all of biology: how life began. The only words he published in a book appeared near the end of On the Origin of Raw ingredients Species: “Probably all the organic beings which Life—or at least life as we know it—appears to have ever lived on this earth ...
THE ROLE OF METAPHOR IN THE DARWIN DEBATES: NATURAL
... Chesterton, and Charles Spurgeon, reveals two categories of counter-metaphors used to defend natural theology: metaphors of awe and wonder associated with nature, and metaphors of sin and destruction associated with evolution. The language of the counter-metaphors reveals the thinking of nineteenth ...
... Chesterton, and Charles Spurgeon, reveals two categories of counter-metaphors used to defend natural theology: metaphors of awe and wonder associated with nature, and metaphors of sin and destruction associated with evolution. The language of the counter-metaphors reveals the thinking of nineteenth ...
Rough Transcript of the Video: Darwin`s Dangerous Idea
... destroy mans status is to open the floodgates to anarchy. You might just as well throw muskets to the rabble.“ The scene now shifts: Erasmus: “People like Owen think that if there was no Church of England cucumbers wouldn’t grow.” Darwin: “If the globe has undergone such profound changes in its hist ...
... destroy mans status is to open the floodgates to anarchy. You might just as well throw muskets to the rabble.“ The scene now shifts: Erasmus: “People like Owen think that if there was no Church of England cucumbers wouldn’t grow.” Darwin: “If the globe has undergone such profound changes in its hist ...
Darwinian Evolutionary Theory and Constructions of Race in Nazi
... reversed the formula of “survival of the fittest”: it encouraged the unfit to overpopulate, while it did nothing to encourage the fit to keep pace. (19) Even before Darwin published Origin, Spencer was exploring the concept of evolution. Spencer argued that human society progresses from simple to co ...
... reversed the formula of “survival of the fittest”: it encouraged the unfit to overpopulate, while it did nothing to encourage the fit to keep pace. (19) Even before Darwin published Origin, Spencer was exploring the concept of evolution. Spencer argued that human society progresses from simple to co ...
Schultz 10e IMTB Chapter 06
... Darwin married and moved to the country after 3 years so that he could concentrate on his work. Unfortunately, he developed neurotic health symptoms that plagued him under instances of stress or disruptions to his daily life. He worked steadily on his theory of evolution yet was afraid to present it ...
... Darwin married and moved to the country after 3 years so that he could concentrate on his work. Unfortunately, he developed neurotic health symptoms that plagued him under instances of stress or disruptions to his daily life. He worked steadily on his theory of evolution yet was afraid to present it ...
Section 1 The Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection
... that each species is a divine creation that exists, unchanging, as it was originally created. But scientists had begun to seek to explain the origins of fossils. Some scientists tried to explain their observations by altering traditional explanations of creation. Others (including Darwin’s own grand ...
... that each species is a divine creation that exists, unchanging, as it was originally created. But scientists had begun to seek to explain the origins of fossils. Some scientists tried to explain their observations by altering traditional explanations of creation. Others (including Darwin’s own grand ...
Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, and the Evolution
... as collectors and travelers, their socio-political commitments, and their personal styles. The present paper is focused on, what is, perhaps, the most fundamental area of disagreement between Darwin and Wallace: the evolution of humanity. Darwin argued that human evolution could be explained by natu ...
... as collectors and travelers, their socio-political commitments, and their personal styles. The present paper is focused on, what is, perhaps, the most fundamental area of disagreement between Darwin and Wallace: the evolution of humanity. Darwin argued that human evolution could be explained by natu ...
Lesson Overview - mr. welling` s school page
... The little brown birds were actually all species of finches, also found nowhere else, though they resembled a South American finch species. The same was true of Galápagos tortoises, marine iguanas, and many plants that Darwin had collected on the islands. ...
... The little brown birds were actually all species of finches, also found nowhere else, though they resembled a South American finch species. The same was true of Galápagos tortoises, marine iguanas, and many plants that Darwin had collected on the islands. ...
A722: Seminar in Biological Anthropology – 7 September 2016 pg. 1
... Freeman (1974) also disagrees with Harris’ work for attributing too much credit to Thomas Malthus’ social science study, An Essay on the Principle of Population to Darwin’s concept of natural selection. Freeman attributes Darwin’s concepts on differential survival to decades of biological observatio ...
... Freeman (1974) also disagrees with Harris’ work for attributing too much credit to Thomas Malthus’ social science study, An Essay on the Principle of Population to Darwin’s concept of natural selection. Freeman attributes Darwin’s concepts on differential survival to decades of biological observatio ...
Evolution, Biogeography, and Maps
... Map-based observations of, for example, discontinuous distributions or altitudinal zonations were frequently expressed in words as well as pictures. By studying different or sequential versions of such map-based conceptual frameworks, one can readily identify changes in map meaning. Maps of faunal r ...
... Map-based observations of, for example, discontinuous distributions or altitudinal zonations were frequently expressed in words as well as pictures. By studying different or sequential versions of such map-based conceptual frameworks, one can readily identify changes in map meaning. Maps of faunal r ...
Nature`s Fancy: Charles Darwin and the Breeding of Pigeons
... already busy with cabbages and ducks; he was only just beginning his serious study of the pigeon. "I am hard at work at my notes collecting and comparing them," he wrote his cousin William Darwin Fox, "in order in some two or three years to write a book with all the facts and arguments, which I can ...
... already busy with cabbages and ducks; he was only just beginning his serious study of the pigeon. "I am hard at work at my notes collecting and comparing them," he wrote his cousin William Darwin Fox, "in order in some two or three years to write a book with all the facts and arguments, which I can ...
Darwin Conspiracy - Answers in Genesis
... ISSN: 1937-9056 Copyright © 2009 Answers in Genesis. All rights reserved. Consent is given to unlimited copying, downloading, quoting from, and distribution of this article for non-commercial, non-sale purposes only, provided the following conditions are met: the author of the article is clearly ide ...
... ISSN: 1937-9056 Copyright © 2009 Answers in Genesis. All rights reserved. Consent is given to unlimited copying, downloading, quoting from, and distribution of this article for non-commercial, non-sale purposes only, provided the following conditions are met: the author of the article is clearly ide ...
On the Origin of Species
On the Origin of Species, published on 24 November 1859, is a work of scientific literature by Charles Darwin which is considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology. Its full title was On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. In the 1872 sixth edition ""On"" was omitted, so the full title is The origin of species by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life. This edition is usually known as The Origin of Species. Darwin's book introduced the scientific theory that populations evolve over the course of generations through a process of natural selection. It presented a body of evidence that the diversity of life arose by common descent through a branching pattern of evolution. Darwin included evidence that he had gathered on the Beagle expedition in the 1830s and his subsequent findings from research, correspondence, and experimentation.Various evolutionary ideas had already been proposed to explain new findings in biology. There was growing support for such ideas among dissident anatomists and the general public, but during the first half of the 19th century the English scientific establishment was closely tied to the Church of England, while science was part of natural theology. Ideas about the transmutation of species were controversial as they conflicted with the beliefs that species were unchanging parts of a designed hierarchy and that humans were unique, unrelated to other animals. The political and theological implications were intensely debated, but transmutation was not accepted by the scientific mainstream.The book was written for non-specialist readers and attracted widespread interest upon its publication. As Darwin was an eminent scientist, his findings were taken seriously and the evidence he presented generated scientific, philosophical, and religious discussion. The debate over the book contributed to the campaign by T. H. Huxley and his fellow members of the X Club to secularise science by promoting scientific naturalism. Within two decades there was widespread scientific agreement that evolution, with a branching pattern of common descent, had occurred, but scientists were slow to give natural selection the significance that Darwin thought appropriate. During ""the eclipse of Darwinism"" from the 1880s to the 1930s, various other mechanisms of evolution were given more credit. With the development of the modern evolutionary synthesis in the 1930s and 1940s, Darwin's concept of evolutionary adaptation through natural selection became central to modern evolutionary theory, and it has now become the unifying concept of the life sciences.