The Philosophy of Zoology Before Darwin

• Main Authors: McBirney, Alexander (Author), Cook, Stanton (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Subjects: Life sciences.; History.; Paleontology.; Evolutionary biology.; Zoology.; Life Sciences.; Life Sciences, general.; History of Science.; Evolutionary Biology.

This long-overlooked survey of the development of evolutionary theory is by far the most thorough and balanced account of its kind. Unlike most of the recent Anglo-centric literature that tends to focus almost exclusively on Darwin and natural selection, it follows the work of naturalists of many na...

Table of Contents:

• Aristotle
• The Roman Period
• The Middle Ages and Renaissance
• Evolution of the Concept of Species
• Philosophers of the XVIIIth Century
• Buffon
• Lamarck
• Etienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
• Georges Cuvier
• Debate between Cuvier and Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire
• Goethe
• Dugès
• The German Natural Philosophers
• The Theory of the Organic Types and its Consequences
• Louis Agassiz
• The Lower Animals
• Cell Theory and the Constitution of the Individual
• Embryology
• Species and their Modifications.