| Description |
xii, 1138 pages : illustrations |
| Contents |
Darwinism is social / Robert M. Young -- Scientific attitudes to Darwinism in Britain and America / Peter J. Bowler -- Darwinism in Germany, France and Italy / Pietro Corsi and Paul J. Weindling -- Darwin and Russian evolutionary biology / Francesco M. Scudo and Michele Acanfora -- Darwin's five theories of evolution / Ernst Mayr -- Darwinism as a historical entity : a historiographic proposal / David L. Hull -- Darwinism today (commentary) / Jacques Roger -- Adaptation and mechnisms of evolution after Darwin : a study in persistent controversies / William B. Provine -- Darwin on natural selection : a philosophical perspective / Elliott Sober -- Images of Darwin : a historiographic overview / Antonello La Vergata -- The Beagle collector and his collections / Duncan M. Porter |
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Going the limit : toward the construction of Darwin's theory (1832-1839) / Howard E. Gruber -- The wider British context in Darwin's theorizing / Silvan S. Schweber -- Darwin's invertebrate program, 1826-1836 : preconditions for transformism / Phillip R. Sloan -- Darwin's early intellectual development : an overview of the Beagle voyage (1831-1836) / Frank J. Sulloway -- Owen and Darwin reading a fossil : Macrauchenia in a boney light / Stan P. Rachootin -- The immediate origins of natural selection / M.J.S. Hodge and David Kohn -- Darwin as a lifelong generation theorist / M.J.S. Hodge -- Darwin's principle of divergence as internal dialogue / David Kohn -- Darwin's intellectual development (commentary) / Giuliano Pancaldi |
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Speaking of species : Darwin's strategy / John Beatty -- The ascent of nature in Darwins' Descent of man / John R. Durant -- Darwin and the expression of the emotions / Janet Browne -- Darwin on animal behavior and evolution / Richard W. Burkhardt, Jr. -- Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace : two decades of debate over natural selection / Malcolm Jay Kottler -- Darwin of down : the evolutionist as Squarson-naturalist / James R. Moore -- Darwin the young geologist / Sandra Herbert -- Darwin and the world of geology (commentary) / Martin J.S. Rudwick -- Darwin and the breeders : a social history / James A. Second -- Darwin's reading and the fictions of development / Gillian Beer -- Three notes on the reception of Darwin's ideas on natural selection (Henry Baker Tristram, Alfred Newton, Samuel Wilberforce) / I. Bernard Cohen |
| Analysis |
Organisms Evolution Theories of Darwin, Charles |
| Notes |
'Including Proceedings of the Charles Darwin Centenary Conference, Florence Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, June 1982' |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 1021-1099 |
| Subject |
Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882 -- Congresses.
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Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.
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Evolution -- Congresses.
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Evolution.
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Natural selection -- Congresses.
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Natural selection.
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Naturalists -- England -- Biography.
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Naturalists -- England -- Biography -- Congresses.
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Naturalists -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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Biographies.
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| Author |
Kohn, David, 1941-
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Charles Darwin Centenary Conference (1982 : Florence Center for the History and Philosophy of Science)
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| LC no. |
84013386 |
| ISBN |
0691083568 |
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