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The Structure of Evolutionary Theory

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Description for The Structure of Evolutionary Theory Hardcover. This volume describes the content and discusses the history and origins of the three core commitments of Darwinism, examines the three critiques that challenge this Darwinian edifice and proposes a system for integrating these commitments and critiques into a structure of evolutionary thought. Num Pages: 1464 pages, 57 halftones, 88 line illustrations, 4 tables. BIC Classification: PSAJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 181 x 267 x 71. Weight in Grams: 2262.
The world's most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of explanatory force unprecedented in our time--a landmark publication, both for its historical sweep and for its scientific vision. With characteristic attention to detail, Stephen Jay Gould first describes the content and discusses the history and origins of the three core commitments of classical Darwinism: that natural selection works on organisms, not genes or species; that it is almost exclusively the mechanism of adaptive evolutionary change; and that these changes are incremental, not drastic. Next, he examines the three critiques that currently challenge ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
1464
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
Weight
2243g
Number of Pages
1464
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780674006133
SKU
V9780674006133
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About Stephen Jay Gould
Stephen Jay Gould was Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology at Harvard University and Vincent Astor Visiting Professor of Biology at New York University. A MacArthur Prize Fellow, he received innumerable honors and awards and wrote many books, including Ontogeny and Phylogeny and Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle (both from Harvard).

Reviews for The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
For all its rigorous detail and painstaking historical, scientific, and philosophical explication, Gould's massive work is profoundly personal and dramatic, laced as it is with his great love for Darwin, frank intellectual autobiography, and his belief that the history of evolutionary thought constitutes an epic tale ...[E]very scientifically inclined reader, will be affected by some aspect of Gould's passionate ... Read more

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