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  title info:
    title: Charles Darwin's Incomplete Revolution
    sub title: The Origin of Species and the Static Worldview
  name:
    name part: Delisle, Richard G.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2019
    edition: 1st ed. 2019.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: IX, 276 p. 11 illus. online resource.
  abstract: This book offers a thorough reanalysis of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, which for many people represents the work that alone gave rise to evolutionism. Of course, scholars today know better than that. Yet, few resist the temptation of turning to the Origin in order to support it or reject it in light of their own work. Apparently, Darwin fills the mythical role of a founding figure that must either be invoked or repudiated. The book is an invitation to move beyond what is currently expected of Darwin's magnum opus. Once the rhetorical varnish of Darwin's discourses is removed, one discovers a work of remarkably indecisive conclusions. The book comprises two main theses: (1) The Origin of Species never remotely achieved the theoretical unity to which it is often credited. Rather, Darwin was overwhelmed by a host of phenomena that could not fit into his narrow conceptual framework. (2) In the Origin of Species, Darwin failed at completing the full conversion to evolutionism. Carrying many ill-designed intellectual tools of the 17th and 18th centuries, Darwin merely promoted a special brand of evolutionism, one that prevented him from taking the decisive steps toward an open and modern evolutionism. It makes an interesting read for biologists, historians and philosophers alike.
  table of contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: Darwin in the Larger Intellectual Context -- Part I: Historical Shallowness -- Chapter 2: Evolution in a Fully Constituted World -- Part II: To Travel in Geographical Space is to Travel in Geological Time -- Chapter 3: Imposing Order Upon Complexity: Divergence Forward in Time (Origin, chap. 1-5, 8) -- Chapter 4: The Wild Power of Natural Selection: Vertical Evolution, Analogies, and Imaginary Scenarios (Origin, chap. 6-7) -- Chapter 5: An Attempt at Taming Natural Selection With Convergence Backward in Time, Part I (Origin,chap. 11-12) -- Chapter 6: An Attempt at Taming Natural Selection With Convergence Backward in Time, Part II (Origin, chap. 13) -- Part III: Evolutionary Dynamics -- Chapter 7: Cyclicity, Evolutionary Equilibrium, and Biological Progress -- Part IV: A Question of Methods -- Chapter 8: Methodologies for a World Already Revealed -- Chapter 9: Conclusion: A restored unity in the Origin of Species?.
  note: by Richard G. Delisle.
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary biology
  subject:
    topic: Biology-History
  subject:
    topic: Modern philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Evolutionary Biology
  subject:
    topic: History of Biology
  subject:
    topic: Modern Philosophy
  classification: QH359-425
  classification: 576.8
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Evolutionary Biology - New Perspectives on Its Development, 1
  identifier: 9783030172039
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-17203-9
  record info:
    record creation date: 190628
    record change date: 20191026202648.0
    record identifier: 978-3-030-17203-9