How to Read Darwin
Charles Darwin's permanent legacy is his broad, abstract theories of evolution and natural selection, theories that he tested against an astonishing array of natural history evidence in his writing. Mark Ridley uses a question-and-answer approach to explain how Darwin carefully tackled problems, and shows here how the reader can understand Darwin's arguments by first working out which question Darwin had implicitly set himself to answer.Ridley concentrates on understanding Darwin's most important books, On the Origin of Species and The Descent of Man, but he also examines a sample from one of Darwin's other works on the emotions, as one repre…
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Weitere Autoren: Critchley, Simon (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-393-32881-3
- EAN: 9780393328813
- Produktnummer: 1947893
- Verlag: W W Norton & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
- Seitenangabe: 119 S.
- Masse: H19.6 cm x B12.8 cm x D1.0 cm 136 g
- Auflage: American
- Gewicht: 136
Über den Autor
Mark Ridley works in the Department of Zoology, Oxford University. He previously held posts at Emory University in Atlanta and at Cambridge University in England. His books include the standard college text Evolution and Mendel's Demon. He has also edited anthologies on Evolution and A Darwin Selection.
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