In this rich selection from Darwin's most important and relevant works, Glick and Kohn provide the reader with a map of sorts by which to navigate the ins and outs of the …
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species is unquestionably one of the chief landmarks in biology. The Origin (as it is widely known) was literally only an abstract of the manuscript …
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This essay presents the misinterpretation of the scientific contribution and natural selection theory of Charles Darwin. It notes that Darwin's theory has remained widely contested citing …
All great ideas and statements have antecedents. Isaac Newton, in his most famous aphorism, proclaimed," if I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." But …
Natural selection, as introduced by Charles Darwin in the Origin of Species (1859), has always been a topic of great conceptual and empirical interest. This book puts Darwin's …
Charles Darwin: The Founder of the Theory of Evolution and Natural Selection provides a comprehensive coverage of the whole spectrum of the theory of evolution. The title presents …
Natural selection is the centerpiece of Darwin's great book, and is prominent in its title: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races …
Charles Darwin's theory of natural selection has been hailed as one of the most innovative contributions to modern science. When first proposed in 1859, however, it was widely …
Publisher Summary Darwin's theory of natural selection inevitably focused attention on the problem of variation within species. For selection to work, there must be significant …