Darwinism's Struggle for Survival Heredity and the Hypothesis of Natural Selection

Name: Darwinism's Struggle for Survival Heredity and the Hypothesis of Natural Selection
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ISBN: 9780521039673

ISBN-10: 0521039673

ISBN-13: 9780521039673

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Authors: Jean Gayon, Matthew Cobb

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In Darwinism's Struggle for Survival Jean Gayon offers a philosophical interpretation of the history of theoretical Darwinism. He begins by examining the different forms taken by the hypothesis of natural selection in the nineteenth century (Darwin, Wallace, Galton) and the major difficulties that it encountered, particularly with regard to its compatibility with the theory of heredity. He then shows how these difficulties were overcome during the seventy years that followed the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species, and he concludes by analyzing the major features of the genetic theory of natural selection, as it developed from 1920 to 1960. This rich and wide-ranging study will appeal…

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List price: $39.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 8/16/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 536
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 1.760

MATTHEW COBB is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Manchester. He has translated five books from French into English, and spent most of his adult life as a researcher in Paris, before returning to the UK in 2002.



List of illustrations


Preface to the English edition


Introduction



The Darwinian hypothesis



Wallace and Darwin: a disagreement and its meaning



The ontology of selection



Jenkin's objections, Darwin's dilemma



Selection faced with the challenge of heredity: sixty years of principled crisis



Galton and the concept of heredity



Post-Darwinian views of selection and regression



The strategy of indirect corroboration: the case of mimicry



The search for direct proof: biometry



Establishing the possibility of natural selection: the confrontation of Darwinism and Mendelism



The genetic theory of selection



The place of selection in theoretical population genetics



The empirical and the formal


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index