Reason for Everything : Natural Selection and the English Imagination
Reason for Everything : Natural Selection and the English Imagination
Click to enlarge
Author(s): Kohn, Marek
ISBN No.: 9781437968804
Pages: 392
Year: 200909
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 48.30
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

This fusion of science and biography is about the Englishness of evolutionary theory and the lives and personalities of those who made it. At the heart of the theory of evolution by natural selection is the notion of adaptation to the environment. When 'adaptationists¿ look at living creatures, they believe that each of their features has a purpose, for which it has been shaped by selection. And that has been a productive assumption. Here, Kohn discusses the British thinkers who developed this idea to levels of sophistication undreamed of in Darwin¿s time. He begins with a portrait of Alfred Russel Wallace, Darwin¿s contemporary. ¿Kohn writes with sympathy about how each of these individuals responded to a chilling and inspiring vision of nature.¿.



To be able to view the table of contents for this publication then please subscribe by clicking the button below...
To be able to view the full description for this publication then please subscribe by clicking the button below...