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Darwinism's Struggle for Survival: Heredity and the Hypothesis of Natural Selection

Darwinism's Struggle for Survival: Heredity and the Hypothesis of Natural Selection

Gayon, Jean
Cobb, Matthew

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology

PhilosophyEvolutionHistory & Philosophy of Science

ISBN10: 0521039673
ISBN13: 9780521039673
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Aug 16 2007
Pages: 536
Weight: 1.71
Height: 1.19 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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 that 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 that followed the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, and he concludes by analyzing the major features of the genetic theory of natural selection, as it developed from 1920 to 1960. This rich and wide-ranging study will appeal to philosophers and historians of science and to evolutionary biologists.

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