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xx, 471 pages : portraits ; 21 cm |
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Bibliography: page xii-xx. |
| Contents |
Fossils and early cosmology / Francis C. Haber -- The germination of the idea of biological species / Bentley Glass -- Maupertuis, pioneer of genetics and evolution / Bentley Glass -- Buffon and the problem of species / Arthur O. Lovejoy -- Diderot and Eighteenth Century French transformism / Lester G. Crocker -- Heredity and variation in the Eighteenth Century concept of the species / Bentley Glass -- Kant and evolution / Arthur O. Lovejoy -- Herder : progressionism without transformism / Arthur O. Lovejoy -- Fossils and the idea of a process of time in natural history / Francis C. Haber -- Lamarck and Darwin in the history of science / Charles Coulston Gillispie -- An embryological enigma in the "Origin of species" / Jane Oppenheimer -- The idea of descent in Post-Romantic German biology : 1848-1858 / Owsei Temkin -- The argument for organic evolution before the "Origin of species", 1830-1858 / Arthur O. Lovejoy -- Schopenhauer as an evolutionist / Arthur O. Lovejoy -- Recent criticism of the Darwinian theory of recapitulation : its grounds and its initiator / Arthur O. Lovejoy. |
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Evolution (Biology) -- History.
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| Added Author |
Temkin, Owsei, 1902-2002 editor.
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Straus, William L. (William Louis), 1900-
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Johns Hopkins History of Ideas Club.
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