Charles Darwin's Incomplete Revolution - Richard G. Delisle

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Résumé :
Chapter 1: Introduction: Darwin in the Larger Intellectual Context.- Part I: Historical Shallowness.- Chapter 2: Evolution in a Fully Constituted World.- Part II: To Travel in Geographical Space is to Travel in Geological Time.- Chapter 3: Imposing Order Upon Complexity: Divergence Forward in Time (Origin, chap. 1-5, 8).- Chapter 4: The Wild Power of Natural Selection: Vertical Evolution, Analogies, and Imaginary Scenarios (Origin, chap. 6-7).- Chapter 5: An Attempt at Taming Natural Selection With Convergence Backward in Time, Part I (Origin,chap. 11-12).- Chapter 6: An Attempt at Taming Natural Selection With Convergence Backward in Time, Part II (Origin, chap. 13).- Part III: Evolutionary Dynamics.- Chapter 7: Cyclicity, Evolutionary Equilibrium, and Biological Progress.- Part IV: A Question of Methods.- Chapter 8: Methodologies for a World Already Revealed.- Chapter 9: Conclusion: A restored unity in the Origin of Species?....

Biographie:
Richard G. Delisle owns a PhD in paleoanthropology (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa) and a PhD in philosophy (University of Montreal, Canada). He teaches evolutionary biology and history/philosophy of science in the programs of archaeology, philosophy, and liberal education at the University of Lethbridge (Canada). His research interest focuses on the multidisciplinary quest of understanding evolutionary studies under the intimate light of its past and current developments....

Sommaire:
Chapter 1: Introduction: Darwin in the Larger Intellectual Context.- Part I: Historical Shallowness.- Chapter 2: Evolution in a Fully Constituted World.- Part II: To Travel in Geographical Space is to Travel in Geological Time.- Chapter 3: Imposing Order Upon Complexity: Divergence Forward in Time (Origin, chap. 1-5, 8).- Chapter 4: The Wild Power of Natural Selection: Vertical Evolution, Analogies, and Imaginary Scenarios (Origin, chap. 6-7).- Chapter 5: An Attempt at Taming Natural Selection With Convergence Backward in Time, Part I (Origin,chap. 11-12).- Chapter 6: An Attempt at Taming Natural Selection With Convergence Backward in Time, Part II (Origin, chap. 13).- Part III: Evolutionary Dynamics.- Chapter 7: Cyclicity, Evolutionary Equilibrium, and Biological Progress.- Part IV: A Question of Methods.- Chapter 8: Methodologies for a World Already Revealed.- Chapter 9: Conclusion: A restored unity in the Origin of Species?.