| Description |
285 pages : maps, diagrams ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
How the Transformist question presents itself today -- The face of the earth -- On the law of irreversibility in evolution -- Hominization -- The transformist paradox -- The natural history of the world -- On the necessarily discontinuous appearance of ever evolutionary series -- The basis and foundation of the idea of evolution -- The movements of life -- What should we think of transformation? -- The phenomenon of man -- Man's place in nature -- The discovery of the past -- The natural units of humanity -- Man's place in the universe -- Zoological evolution and invention -- The vision of the past -- Evolution of the idea of evolution -- Nore on the present reality and evolutionary significance of a human orthogenesis -- Hominization and speciation -- A defence of orthogenesis in the matter of patterns of speciation -- Index |
| Analysis |
Cosmology |
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Evolution |
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Philosophical anthropology |
| Notes |
Originally published as La vision du passè. Paris, Editions du Seuil, 1957 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Translation of: La vision du passè |
| Subject |
Cosmology.
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Creation.
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Evolution.
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Human evolution.
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Natural theology.
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Philosophical anthropology.
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Physical anthropology.
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Biological Evolution.
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| LC no. |
66066156 |
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