Analyzes the factors in Darwin's background, character, and research that shaped his scientific investigations and discoveries

The Triumph of the Darwinian Method

Science & Math

GHISELIN, Michael T.

Biological Sciences

Univ of Chicago Pr

This volume surveys the complete range of the Darwin's accomplishments, offering a coherent and consistent treatment of the flow of ideas throughout Darwin's works. Ghiselin constructs a unified theoretical system that explains the major features of Darwin's investigations, evaluating the literature from a historical, scientific, and philosophical perspective.

Dover Publications

This volume surveys the complete range of the Darwin's accomplishments, offering a coherent and consistent treatment of the flow of ideas throughout Darwin's works. Ghiselin constructs a unified theoretical system that explains the major features of Darwin's investigations, evaluating the literature from a historical, scientific, and philosophical perspective.

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Univ. of California Press

University of California Press

The Economy of Nature and the Evolution of Sex

Univ. Of California Pr.

This sweeping discussion of the philosophy of evolutionary biology is based on the revolutionary idea that species are not kinds of organisms but wholes composed of organisms. This sweeping discussion of the philosophy of evolutionary biology is based on the author’s revolutionary idea that species are not kinds of organisms but wholes composed of organisms―individuals in the broadest ontological sense. Although the book’s primary focus is on species and speciation, it deals with a wide variety of other fundamental units and basic processes and provides a reexamination of the role of classification in biology and other sciences. In explaining his individuality thesis, Michael T. Ghiselin provides extended discussions of such philosophical topics as definition, the reality of various kinds of groups, and how we classify traits and processes. He develops and applies the implications for general biology and other sciences and makes the case that a better understanding of species and of classification in general puts biologists and paleontologists in a much better position to understand nature in general, and such processes as extinction in particular.

Metaphysics and the Origin of Species (Philosophy and Biology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

State University of New York Press

This sweeping discussion of the philosophy of evolutionary biology is based on the author's revolutionary idea that species are not kinds of organisms but wholes composed of organisms--individuals in the broadest ontological sense. Although the book's primary focus is on species and speciation, it deals with a wide variety of other fundamental units and basic processes and provides a reexamination of the role of classification in biology and other sciences. In explaining his individuality thesis, Michael T. Ghiselin provides extended discussions of such philosophical topics as definition, the reality of various kinds of groups, and how we classify traits and processes. He develops and applies the implications for general biology and other sciences and makes the case that a better understanding of species and of classification in general puts biologists and paleontologists in a much better position to understand nature in general, and such processes as extinction in particular.

Metaphysics and the Origin of Species (Suny Series, Philosophy & Biology) (Philosophy and Biology)

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The Triumph of the Darwinian Method

The Triumph of the Darwinian Method

The Triumph of the Darwinian Method

The Triumph of the Darwinian Method

The Economy of Nature and the Evolution of Sex

Metaphysics and the Origin of Species (Philosophy and Biology)

Metaphysics and the Origin of Species (Suny Series, Philosophy & Biology) (Philosophy and Biology)