The Evolution of Darwinism

副标题: Selection, Adaptation and Progress in Evolutionary Biology

ISBN: 9780521834131

作者: Timothy Shanahan

出版社: Cambridge Univ Pr

出版年: 2004

页数: 352

定价: $84.00

装帧: HRD

内容简介

Review

"This is a thoughtful and clearly written book that serves as a fine introduction to the ways in which evolutionary thought has itself evolved since the time of Darwin. I learned a lot from it, and I feel confident that anybody who is fascinated by these centrally important ideas will also take something useful away from it." Bioscience, Chrisopher Wills, UC San Diego

Product Description

No other scientific theory has had as great an impact on our understanding of the world as Darwin's theory outlined in his Origin of Species. Yet the theory has been the subject of controversy from its very beginning. This book focuses on three issues of debate in Darwin's theory of evolution--the nature of selection, the nature and scope of adaptation, and the question of evolutionary progress. It traces the varying interpretations to which these issues were subjected historically through the fierce contemporary debates continuing to rage.