The Darwinian Heritage / / ed. by David Kohn.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Acanfora, Michele,; Beatty, John,; Beer, Gillian,; Bowler, Peter J.,; Browne, Janet,; Burkhardt, Richard W.,; Cohen, I. Bernard,; Corsi, Pietro,; Durant, John R.,; Gruber, Howard E.,; Herbert, Sandra,; Hodge, M. J. S.,; Hodge, M.J. S.,; Hull, David L.,; Kohn, David,; Kottler, Makobn Jay,; La Vergata, Antonello,; Mayr, Ernst,; Moore, James R.,; Pancaldi, Giuliano,; Porter, Duncan M.,; Provine, William B.,; Rachootin, Stan P.,; Roger, Jacques,; Rudwick, Martin J. S.,; Schweber, Siluan S.,; Scudo, Francesco M.,; Sloan, Phillip R.,; Sober, Elliott,; Sulloway, Frank J.,; Weindling, Paul J.,; Young, Robert M.,
• HerausgeberIn: Kohn, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]; ©1986
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: Course Book
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library ; 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1152 p.)

Representing the present rich state of historical work on Darwin and Darwinism, this volume of essays places the great theorist in the context of Victorian science. The book includes contributions by some of the most distinguished senior figures of Darwin scholarship and by leading younger scholars who have been transforming Darwinian studies. The result is the most comprehensive survey available of Darwin's impact on science and society.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- Introduction: A High Regard for Darwin -- PART ONE. The Evolution of a Theorist -- Chapter 1. Going the Limit: Toward the Construction of Darwin's Theory (1832-1839) -- Chapter 2. The Wider British Context in Darwin's Theorizing -- Chapter 3. Darwin's Invertebrate Program, 1826-1836: Preconditions for Transformism -- Chapter 4. Darwin's Early Intellectual Development: An Overview of the Beagle Voyage (1831-1836) -- Chapter 5. Owen and Darwin Reading a Fossil: Macrauchenia in a Boney Light -- Chapter 6. The Immediate Origins of Natural Selection -- Chapter 7. Darwin as a Lifelong Generation Theorist -- Chapter 8. Darwin's Principle of Divergence as Internal Dialogue -- Chapter 9. Darwin's Intellectual Development (Commentary) -- Chapter 10. Speaking of Species: Darwin's Strategy -- Chapter 11. The Ascent of Nature in Darwin's Descent of Man -- Chapter 12. Darwin and the Expression of the Emotions -- Chapter 13. Darwin on Animal Behavior and Evolution -- Chapter 14. Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace: Two Decades of Debate over Natural Selection -- PART TWO. Darwin in Victorian Context -- Chapter 15. Darwin of Down: The Evolutionist as Squarson- Naturalist -- Chapter 16. Darwin the Young Geologist -- Chapter 17. Darwin and the World of Geology (Commentary) -- Chapter 19. Darwin's Reading and the Fictions of Development -- Chapter 20. Three Notes on the Reception of Darwin's Ideas on Natural Selection (Henry Baker Tristram, Alfred Newton, Samuel Wilberforce) -- Chapter 21. Darwinism Is Social -- PART THREE. Towards The Comparative Reception of Darwinism -- Chapter 22. Scientific Attitudes to Darwinism in Britain and America -- Chapter 23. Darwinism in Germany, France and Italy -- Chapter 24. Darwin and Russian Evolutionary Biology -- PART FOUR. PERSPECTIVES ON DARWIN AND DARWINISM -- Chapter 25. Darwin's Five Theories of Evolution -- Chapter 26: Darwinism as a Historical Entity: A Historiographic Proposal -- Chapter 27. Darwinism Today (Commentary) -- Chapter 28. Adaptation and Mechanisms of Evolution After Darwin: A Study in Persistent Controversies -- Chapter 29. Darwin on Natural Selection: A Philosophical Perspective -- Chapter 30. Images of Darwin: A Historiographic Overview -- Chapter 31. The Beagle Collector and His Collections -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter