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Bezig met laden... A Reason for Everything: Natural Selection and the English Imaginationdoor Marek Kohn
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. All those English evolutionists. What a galere of different characters, lefties, near-Fascists, loners, self-publicists - well brought to life in the context of their times. New to me: how early biology became a mathematical matter (already at start of C 20th ); Dawkins without much field work or experiment is highly influential in the scientific community because of the clarity and power of his thinking and writing - not just a populariser. Would benefit from a glossary; terminology not always clearly explained and is embedded in the story line and controversy. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
A Reason for Everything is about Britain and natural history, butterflies and snails, impassioned beliefs, and ideological struggles. The book begins with Alfred Russel Wallace, who discovered the idea of natural selection for himself in 1858, while his own life hung in a precarious, malarial balance - and closes with a portrait of Richard Dawkins, Britain's most prominent living advocate of natural selection. Charting the lives of some of the major thinkers in the years between, including Ronald Aylmer Fisher, J. B. S. Haldane, John Maynard Smith and Bill Hamilton, A Reason for Everything is an elegant and sophisticated account of Darwinism's progression from the nineteenth-century to the present. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)576.820922Natural sciences and mathematics Life Sciences, Biology Genetics and evolution Evolution Theories of evolution History, geographic treatment, biography Biography Collected biographyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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