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"What can the actions of stockbreeders, as they select the best individuals for breeding, teach us about how new species of wild animals and plants come into being? Charles Darwin raised this question in his famous, even notorious, Origin of Species (1859). Darwin's answer - his argument b...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2021. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"What can the actions of stockbreeders, as they select the best individuals for breeding, teach us about how new species of wild animals and plants come into being? Charles Darwin raised this question in his famous, even notorious, Origin of Species (1859). Darwin's answer - his argument by analogy from artificial to natural selection - is the subject of our book. We aim to clarify what kind of argument it is, how it works, and why Darwin gave it such prominence. As we explain more fully in our Introduction, we believe that the argument becomes much more intelligible when set, contextually, in a story stretching from classical Greek mathematics to modern evolutionary genetics: a long story, and a broad one too, encompassing everything from Darwin's earliest notebook theorising on the births and deaths of species, to agrarian capitalism as a distinctive form of economic life, to shifting Western reflections on art-nature relations"-- |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 251 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-246) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781108477284 1108477283 9781108708524 1108708528 |
| Index Number: | QH365 |
| CLC: | Q111.2 |
| Call Number: | Q111.2/W587 |
| Contents: |
Analogy in Classical Greece -- Analogy in the background to the 'Origin' -- Darwin's analogical theorising before the 'Origin' -- The 'one long argument' of the 'Origin' -- An analysis of Darwin's argument by analogy -- Darwin's use of metaphor in the 'Origin' -- Rebuttals of the revisionists -- Wider issues concerning Darwinian science. |