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A Theory Of Population Deduced From The General Law Of Animal Fertility By Herbert Spencer
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Book Synopsis A Theory of Population deduced from the general law of Animal Fertility. Republished from the Westminster Review by : Herbert Spencer
Download or read book A Theory of Population deduced from the general law of Animal Fertility. Republished from the Westminster Review written by Herbert Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A theory of population, deduced from the general law of animal fertility. Republ. from The Westm. review by : Herbert Spencer
Download or read book A theory of population, deduced from the general law of animal fertility. Republ. from The Westm. review written by Herbert Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Synthetic Philosophy of Herbert Spencer: Principles of biology by : Herbert Spencer
Download or read book The Synthetic Philosophy of Herbert Spencer: Principles of biology written by Herbert Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Was Hitler a Darwinian? by : Robert J. Richards
Download or read book Was Hitler a Darwinian? written by Robert J. Richards and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-11-06 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In tracing the history of Darwin’s accomplishment and the trajectory of evolutionary theory during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most scholars agree that Darwin introduced blind mechanism into biology, thus banishing moral values from the understanding of nature. According to the standard interpretation, the principle of survival of the fittest has rendered human behavior, including moral behavior, ultimately selfish. Few doubt that Darwinian theory, especially as construed by the master’s German disciple, Ernst Haeckel, inspired Hitler and led to Nazi atrocities. In this collection of essays, Robert J. Richards argues that this orthodox view is wrongheaded. A close historical examination reveals that Darwin, in more traditional fashion, constructed nature with a moral spine and provided it with a goal: man as a moral creature. The book takes up many other topics—including the character of Darwin’s chief principles of natural selection and divergence, his dispute with Alfred Russel Wallace over man’s big brain, the role of language in human development, his relationship to Herbert Spencer, how much his views had in common with Haeckel’s, and the general problem of progress in evolution. Moreover, Richards takes a forceful stand on the timely issue of whether Darwin is to blame for Hitler’s atrocities. Was Hitler a Darwinian? is intellectual history at its boldest.
Download or read book Herbert Spencer written by John Offer and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2000 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This set traces Herbert Spencer's influence, from his contemporaries to the present day. Contributions come from across the social science disciplines and are often taken from sources which are difficult to access.
Book Synopsis An Autobiography : Herbert Spencer by : Herbert Spencer
Download or read book An Autobiography : Herbert Spencer written by Herbert Spencer and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Darwin's Metaphor by : Robert Maxwell Young
Download or read book Darwin's Metaphor written by Robert Maxwell Young and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1971 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Darwin's "Historical Sketch" by : Curtis N. Johnson
Download or read book Darwin's "Historical Sketch" written by Curtis N. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curtis Johnson examines Charles Darwin's "Historical Sketch," creating profiles of the great thinkers writing before and during Darwin's lifetime.
Download or read book Defining Darwin written by Michael Ruse and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2009-12-04 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Ruse is one of the foremost Charles Darwin scholars of our time. For forty years he has written extensively on Darwin, the scientific revolution that his work precipitated, and the nature and implications of evolutionary thinking for today. Now, in the year marking the two hundredth anniversary of Darwin''s birth and the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of his masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, Ruse reevaluates the legacy of Darwin in this collection of new and recent essays. Beginning with pre-Darwinian concepts of organic origins proposed by the great German philosopher Immanuel Kant, Ruse shows the challenges that Darwin''s radically different idea faced. He then discusses natural selection as a powerful metaphor; Alfred Russel Wallace, the co-discoverer of the theory of evolution; Herbert Spencer''s contribution to evolutionary biology; the synthesis of Mendelian genetics and natural selection; the different views of Julian Huxley and George Gaylord Simpson on evolutionary ethics; and the influence of Darwin''s ideas on literature. In the final section, Ruse brings the discussion up to date with a consideration of "evolutionary development" (dubbed "evo devo") as a new evolutionary paradigm and the effects of Darwin on religion, especially the debate surrounding Intelligent Design theory. Ruse offers a fresh perspective on topics old and new, challenging the reader to think again about the nature and consequences of what has been described as the biggest idea ever conceived.
Book Synopsis Evolution in Victorian Britain by : Caden C. Testa
Download or read book Evolution in Victorian Britain written by Caden C. Testa and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides the readers with a broad but detailed consideration of a wide array of transmutationist thinkers who published before Darwin. Highlighting some of those whom Darwin later acknowledged as well as number he chose not to, readers are shown that the notion that none of these earlier thinkers offered a well-developed or workable theory of evolution is untenable once we read their own words. Further, we will quickly see that transmutation, or the ‘developmental hypothesis’ as it was also sometimes called, had a wide audience across the period under consideration. Scholars such as Adrian Desmond have already drawn attention to the political radicals in the London and Edinburgh medical schools who embraced the transmutationist ideas of the French anatomists Etienne Geoffroy Saint Hilaire and the naturalist and zoologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, and the historians John van Wyhe and Roger Cooter have highlighted the materialist naturalism of phrenologists whose work was so amenable to developmentalist thinking. Paul Elliott has drawn our attention to the “Derbyshire Darwinians,” who championed the transmutationist and egalitarian Enlightenment ideas of Erasmus Darwin, Charles Darwin’s grandfather — as well as the extent to which the Derby Philosophical Society was a breeding ground for this kind of thinking. It was here, for instance, that the young radical journalist Herbert Spencer spent many hours in his formative years. Thus, while Darwin was quietly working away at his big species book, transmutation was being discussed and debated, written about, and advocated across the nation. The book he eventually published in 1859, On the Origin of Species, was thus a contribution to an already very lively, controversial, contested, and ongoing debate. However, Darwin had not intended to published Origin as we know it; it is in fact only what he called a brief abstract of the detailed multi-volume work he had initially had in mind. It was upon receipt of a short essay from the naturalist and collector Alfred Russel Wallace that Darwin was pressed to publish. In this short paper Wallace had quite independently arrived at a theory of species development that was remarkably similar to that which Darwin had been working on for some twenty years.
Download or read book The Zoist written by and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Darwin Mythology by : Kostas Kampourakis
Download or read book Darwin Mythology written by Kostas Kampourakis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-30 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible collection debunks pervasive myths about Darwin's life and work, deepening our understanding of the history of science.
Book Synopsis Animal Breeding, Welfare and Society by : Jacky Turner
Download or read book Animal Breeding, Welfare and Society written by Jacky Turner and published by Earthscan. This book was released on 2010 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The determination of when, how, how often and with whom an animal breeds is moving rapidly away from evolutionary pressures and towards human purposes: these include the breeding of around 50 billion mammals and birds for food production annually, the breeding of pedigree dogs and cats, racing dogs and horses, specialised laboratory animal strains and the use of reproductive science to conserve endangered species or breeds and to limit unwanted populations of pests and non-native species. But the ethics and sustainability of this takeover of animals' reproductive lives have been insufficiently examined by either professionals or the public. This book discusses the methods, the motivations and the consequences of human intervention in animal breeding in terms of animal health, behaviour and well-being. It explores where we are now and the choices ahead, and looks to a future where we have more respect for animals as sentient beings and where we could loosen the reins of reproductive control.
Book Synopsis Letters from Ireland by : Harriet Martineau
Download or read book Letters from Ireland written by Harriet Martineau and published by London : J. Chapman. This book was released on 1852 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Popular Christianity by : Frederick Joseph Foxton
Download or read book Popular Christianity written by Frederick Joseph Foxton and published by . This book was released on 1849 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Ireland, an inquiry into the social condition of the country, with suggestions for its improvement by : Daniel Keshan
Download or read book Ireland, an inquiry into the social condition of the country, with suggestions for its improvement written by Daniel Keshan and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Life-Centered Approach to Bioethics by : Lawrence E. Johnson
Download or read book A Life-Centered Approach to Bioethics written by Lawrence E. Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-06 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaches bioethics on the basis of a conception of life and what is needed for the affirmation of its quality in the most encompassing sense. Johnson applies this conception to discussions of controversial issues in bioethics including euthanasia, abortion, cloning and genetic engineering. His emphasis is not on providing definitive solutions to all bioethical issues but on developing an approach to coping with them that can also help us deal with new issues as they emerge. The foundation of this discussion is an extensive examination of the nature of the self and its good and of various approaches to ethics. His bioethic is integrally related to his well-known work on environmental philosophy. The book also applies these principles on an individual level, offering a user-friendly discussion of how to deal with ethical slippery slopes and how and where to draw the line when dealing with difficult questions of bioethics.