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George C. Williams and Evolutionary Literacy

George C. Williams and Evolutionary Literacy

Cohen, Michael P.

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Series: Literatures, Cultures, and the Environment

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 3031116526
ISBN13: 9783031116520
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Oct 2 2023
Pages: 364
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
In this book, a case study of a humanistic reading of an essential evolutionary theorist, George C. Williams (May 12, 1926-September 8, 2010), the author contends that certain classic works of evolutionary theory and history are the most important nature writing of recent times. What it means to be scientifically literate--is essential for humanistic scholars, who must ground themselves with literary reading of scientific texts. As the most influential American evolutionary theorist of the second half of the twentieth century, Williams masters critique, frames questions about adaptation and natural selection, and answers in a plain, aphoristic writing style. Williams aims for parsimony--to recognize adaptation at the level necessitated by the facts and no higher--through a minimalist writing style. This voice articulates a powerful process that operates at very low levels by blind and selfish chance at the expense of its designed products, using purely trial and error.

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