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Darwinism's Struggle for Survival Gayon Hardback Cambridge University Press

Darwinism's Struggle for Survival

Heredity and the Hypothesis of Natural Selection

A rich and wide-ranging philosophical interpretation of the history of theoretical Darwinism.

Jean Gayon (Author)

9780521562508, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 6 August 1998

536 pages

22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.95 kg

In Darwinism's Struggle for Survival Jean Gayon offers a philosophical interpretation of the history of theoretical Darwinism. He begins by examining the different forms taken by the hypothesis of natural selection in the nineteenth century (Darwin, Wallace, Galton) and the major difficulties which it encountered, particularly with regard to its compatibility with the theory of heredity. He then shows how these difficulties were overcome during the seventy years which followed the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, and he concludes by analysing the major features of the genetic theory of natural selection, as it developed from 1920 to 1960. This r]

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Darwinism's Struggle for Survival

Heredity and the Hypothesis of Natural Selection

A rich and wide-ranging philosophical interpretation of the history of theoretical Darwinism.

Jean Gayon (Author)

9780521562508, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 6 August 1998

536 pages

22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.95 kg

In Darwinism's Struggle for Survival Jean Gayon offers a philosophical interpretation of the history of theoretical Darwinism. He begins by examining the different forms taken by the hypothesis of natural selection in the nineteenth century (Darwin, Wallace, Galton) and the major difficulties which it encountered, particularly with regard to its compatibility with the theory of heredity. He then shows how these difficulties were overcome during the seventy years which followed the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, and he concludes by analysing the major features of the genetic theory of natural selection, as it developed from 1920 to 1960. This r]

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Darwinism's Struggle for Survival

Heredity and the Hypothesis of Natural Selection

A rich and wide-ranging philosophical interpretation of the history of theoretical Darwinism.

Jean Gayon (Author)

9780521562508, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 6 August 1998

536 pages

22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.95 kg

In Darwinism's Struggle for Survival Jean Gayon offers a philosophical interpretation of the history of theoretical Darwinism. He begins by examining the different forms taken by the hypothesis of natural selection in the nineteenth century (Darwin, Wallace, Galton) and the major difficulties which it encountered, particularly with regard to its compatibility with the theory of heredity. He then shows how these difficulties were overcome during the seventy years which followed the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, and he concludes by analysing the major features of the genetic theory of natural selection, as it developed from 1920 to 1960. This r]

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