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Darwins Origin of Species: a Beginner's Guide [Pehme köide]

  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 96 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 195x128x8 mm, kaal: 133 g, illustrations
  • Sari: Beginner's Guide
  • Ilmumisaeg: 28-Sep-2001
  • Kirjastus: John Murray Learning
  • ISBN-10: 0340801867
  • ISBN-13: 9780340801864
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 96 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 195x128x8 mm, kaal: 133 g, illustrations
  • Sari: Beginner's Guide
  • Ilmumisaeg: 28-Sep-2001
  • Kirjastus: John Murray Learning
  • ISBN-10: 0340801867
  • ISBN-13: 9780340801864
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This lively introduction investigates the background to Darwin's Origin of Species, offers a clear and concise summary of the book, gives close-up explanations of the most important Darwinian arguments and closes in on central concepts.





This Beginner's Guide enables you to decide for yourself what you think about Darwin's Origin of Species and its evolutionary vision of life on earth.
Foreword vii
What counts as a great work? vii
Reading this guide viii
A note about quotations ix
A great work: Charles Darwin's Origins of Species x
Introduction: Glimpses of Darwin 1(1)
Darwin looking
1(2)
A brief outline of this guide
3(1)
The Darwinian Gaze
4(11)
The Darwinian gaze 1
4(2)
The Darwinian gaze 2
6(3)
The Darwinian gaze 3
9(3)
Gaze and language: the structure of the Origin
12(3)
The Author of The Origin-A Modern Seer
15(12)
The growth of a scientist's gaze
15(7)
Key intellectual influences
22(2)
Becoming the author of the Origin
24(3)
The Darwinian Language
27(19)
Darwin's key words
27(10)
The pigeon's eyelid: a Darwinian example
37(4)
Selection
41(5)
The Darwinian Explanation
46(19)
Explanation 1: The struggle argument
46(11)
Explanation 2: The narrative of natural selection
57(8)
Darwinian Gaps
65(23)
Darwin as scientific prophet
65(1)
Gap 1: The missing laws
66(3)
Gap 2: The missing links
69(4)
Gap 3: Hostile gaps
73(6)
Gap 4: Complexity gaps
79(1)
Mr Darwin's Planet
80(8)
Impacts of the Origin
88(7)
The first impacts
88(2)
The continuing influence
90(5)
References and Further Reading 95(2)
Index 97