书目名称 | Revisiting the Eclipse of Darwinism |
副标题 | A Historiographical |
编辑 | Michał Jakub Wagner |
视频video | http://file.papertrans.cn/833/832637/832637.mp4 |
概述 | Why did the Eclipse of the Darwinism occur and why did it end?.A critical reexamination of the Eclipse of Darwinism and the Modern Synthesis.Written for biologists, philosophers and historians |
丛书名称 | Evolutionary Biology – New Perspectives on Its Development |
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描述 | .This book focuses on a critical reexamination of two prominent categories used in modern historiography of biology – “the eclipse of Darwinism” and the “modern synthesis”. The main objective is to critically analyze the main existing interpretations of the “eclipse of Darwinism” and emergence of the “modern synthesis”, with particular emphasis on the philosophical assumptions adopted in these interpretations. Thus, interpretations by Ernst Mayr, Peter Bowler, Mark Largent and modern historians who challenge these perspectives are discussed and critically evaluated ..The analysis of the above interpretations makes it possible to determine how the philosophy of science limits the interpretation of the history of a given field, and also serves as a starting point for proposing an original interpretation of the above period in the history of evolutionary biology. The ultimate goal will therefore be a proposal of a new interpretative perspective to answer following questions: Why did the “eclipse of the Darwinism” occur? How should its origins to be understood? Why did it end (and why did the “modern synthesis” emerge)?..Main thesis of this book is that the “eclipse” was a direct respo |
出版日期 | Book 2024 |
关键词 | Darwin; Darwinism; eclipse of Darwinism; neo-Lamarckism; orthogenesis; mutationism; natural history; modern |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-72593-7 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-72595-1 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-72593-7Series ISSN 2524-7751 Series E-ISSN 2524-776X |
issn_series | 2524-7751 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exlusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerla |