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Author : GEORGE MCCREADY PRICE
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book THE PREDICAMENT OF EVOLUTION written by GEORGE MCCREADY PRICE and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George McCready Price
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781549923616
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (236 download)
Download or read book The Predicament of Evolution written by George McCready Price and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-08 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THERE are a great many people who constantly wonder why we are having all this fuss about the theory of evolution. Many think it a shame that professing Christians should engage in such an unseemly quarrel as is now going on between the Fundamentalists and the Modernists. These lovers of peace are ready to become indignant at both parties. They inquire, Is not the present controversy worse than useless and quite contrary to the spirit of Christian harmony and good will? This war in the churches seems to them of the same order as the late war among the nations, and almost as disgraceful to our modern civilization.But there are genuine reasons for the present situation. And the reader's attention is invited to a brief study of these reasons throughout the following pages.The common notion that the crux of the whole difference between the Fundamentalists and the Modernists lies in their opposite attitudes toward the theory of organic evolution is not wrong. But the general public is wrong on two very important points.1. It is wrong in supposing that this difference of attitude toward the theory of evolution is concerned chiefly with the theory of man's origin from the lower animals by natural development. This is partly true; but such a statement of the problem really evades or covers up the chief point at issue after all.2. The religious problem connected with evolution is primarily the problem of sin, which has been and always will be the greatest problem confronting mankind. The fact of sin cannot be denied; as G. K. Chesterton remarks, it is a fact as practical as potatoes. It is as undeniable as the dirt on one's face or the rent in one's coat. The problem arises when we attempt to account for it, or when we try to find a remedy for it.
Author : Paul R. Ehrlich
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1597264601
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (972 download)
Download or read book The Dominant Animal written by Paul R. Ehrlich and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In humanity’s more than 100,000 year history, we have evolved from vulnerable creatures clawing sustenance from Earth to a sophisticated global society manipulating every inch of it. In short, we have become the dominant animal. Why, then, are we creating a world that threatens our own species? What can we do to change the current trajectory toward more climate change, increased famine, and epidemic disease? Renowned Stanford scientists Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich believe that intelligently addressing those questions depends on a clear understanding of how we evolved and how and why we’re changing the planet in ways that darken our descendants’ future. The Dominant Animal arms readers with that knowledge, tracing the interplay between environmental change and genetic and cultural evolution since the dawn of humanity. In lucid and engaging prose, they describe how Homo sapiens adapted to their surroundings, eventually developing the vibrant cultures, vast scientific knowledge, and technological wizardry we know today. But the Ehrlichs also explore the flip side of this triumphant story of innovation and conquest. As we clear forests to raise crops and build cities, lace the continents with highways, and create chemicals never before seen in nature, we may be undermining our own supremacy. The threats of environmental damage are clear from the daily headlines, but the outcome is far from destined. Humanity can again adapt—if we learn from our evolutionary past. Those lessons are crystallized in The Dominant Animal. Tackling the fundamental challenge of the human predicament, Paul and Anne Ehrlich offer a vivid and unique exploration of our origins, our evolution, and our future.
Author : J. Philip Grime
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118223276
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (182 download)
Download or read book The Evolutionary Strategies that Shape Ecosystems written by J. Philip Grime and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-03-26 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE EVOLUTIONARY STRATEGIES THAT SHAPE ECOSYSTEMS In 1837 a young Charles Darwin took his notebook, wrote “I think”, and then sketched a rudimentary, stick-like tree. Each branch of Darwin’s tree of life told a story of survival and adaptation – adaptation of animals and plants not just to the environment but also to life with other living things. However, more than 150 years since Darwin published his singular idea of natural selection, the science of ecology has yet to account for how contrasting evolutionary outcomes affect the ability of organisms to coexist in communities and to regulate ecosystem functioning. In this book Philip Grime and Simon Pierce explain how evidence from across the world is revealing that, beneath the wealth of apparently limitless and bewildering variation in detailed structure and functioning, the essential biology of all organisms is subject to the same set of basic interacting constraints on life-history and physiology. The inescapable resulting predicament during the evolution of every species is that, according to habitat, each must adopt a predictable compromise with regard to how they use the resources at their disposal in order to survive. The compromise involves the investment of resources in either the effort to acquire more resources, the tolerance of factors that reduce metabolic performance, or reproduction. This three-way trade-off is the irreducible core of the universal adaptive strategy theory which Grime and Pierce use to investigate how two environmental filters selecting, respectively, for convergence and divergence in organism function determine the identity of organisms in communities, and ultimately how different evolutionary strategies affect the functioning of ecosystems. This book refl ects an historic phase in which evolutionary processes are finally moving centre stage in the effort to unify ecological theory, and animal, plant and microbial ecology have begun to find a common theoretical framework. Companion website This book has a companion website www.wiley.com/go/grime/evolutionarystrategies with Figures and Tables from the book for downloading.
Author : Bela H. Banathy
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1475731396
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Guided Evolution of Society written by Bela H. Banathy and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a comprehensive review of human and societal evolution the book develops an approach to conscious, self-guided evolution. In the course of the evolutionary journey of our species, there have been three seminal events. The first happened some seven million yeas ago, when our humanoid ancestors entered on the evolutionary scene. Their journey toward the second crucial event lasted over six million years when - as the greatest event of our evolutionary history - homo sapiens sapiens, started the revolutionary process of cultural evolution. Today, we have arrived at the threshold of the third major event, `the revolution of conscious evolution,' when it becomes our responsibility to enter into the evolutionary design space and guide the evolutionary journey of our species. The book tells the story of the first six million years of the journey in just enough detail to understand how evolution had worked in times when it was primarily biological, driven by natural selection. With the human revolution some fifty thousand years ago, with the emergence of self-reflective consciousness, the evolutionary process transformed from biological into cultural. From this point on, the book follows the journey with detailed attention, in order to learn how cultural evolution works. The book is organized in three parts. Part One commences with an exposition of a brief history of the evolutionary idea through time with a focus on a review of the science of general evolution and specifically social and societal evolution. Next, the book unfolds the `evolutionary story' of our species from the time when the first humanoids entered the evolutionary scene to our current era. Part Two develops a systems view of evolution, explores the ways and means of how evolution works, characterizes evolutionary consciousness and develops the idea of conscious evolution. Part Three builds upon the knowledge developed in the first two parts and sets forth the key conditions of conscious, self-guided evolution, elaborating the core condition, which is the acquisition of evolutionary competence through evolutionary learning. The focus of this part is on an approach to the design of evolutionary guidance systems that our families, neighborhoods, communities, organizations, social and societal systems can use to design the future they aspire to attain. The work is set aside from other statements in three important ways. It provides: (1) a comprehensive review of how evolution has worked with a focus on socio-cultural evolution, (2) an explanation of evolutionary consciousness and the conditions of engaging in conscious evolution, and (3) most significantly, it develops a detailed approach and a methodology to the design of evolutionary guidance systems.
Author : Nikolai Eberhardt
Publisher : Pentland Press (NC)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (56 download)
Download or read book From the Big Bang to the Human Predicament written by Nikolai Eberhardt and published by Pentland Press (NC). This book was released on 1998 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Carroll
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415970143
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Literary Darwinism written by Joseph Carroll and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Graeme Taylor
Publisher : New Society Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1550923811
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Evolution's Edge written by Graeme Taylor and published by New Society Publishers. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brink of catastrophe or the edge of evolution? The choice is ours.
Author : Douglas Palmer
Publisher : Phoenix Press (CA)
ISBN 13 : 9780753820841
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book Seven Million Years written by Douglas Palmer and published by Phoenix Press (CA). This book was released on 2005 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A voyage into the deep past to discover how we became human, and how modern science is rewriting our family tree. Seven million years ago there were ape-like animals living in the forests and woodlands of Africa who were our ancestors. They were also the ancestors of the chimpanzee. It's still a provocative thought today, but when the first steps toward this realization were taken, most scientists still believed in the special creation of humans and the story of the flood. Over the years, scientific research has uncovered a fascinating human family tree with over twenty members, and more extinct relatives still being identified. Seven Million Years explores the discovery of our own species, our nearest relatives and an ancient shared history. It tells the stories of the archaeological finds, the people who made them, and how these powerful revelations have altered how we perceive ourselves, our uniqueness as human beings, and our sense of self in relation to other animals.
Author : Simona Ginsburg
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262039303
Total Pages : 665 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The Evolution of the Sensitive Soul written by Simona Ginsburg and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2019-03-12 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness. What marked the evolutionary transition from organisms that lacked consciousness to those with consciousness—to minimal subjective experiencing, or, as Aristotle described it, “the sensitive soul”? In this book, Simona Ginsburg and Eva Jablonka propose a new theory about the origin of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in the transition to basic consciousness. Using a methodology similar to that used by scientists when they identified the transition from non-life to life, Ginsburg and Jablonka suggest a set of criteria, identify a marker for the transition to minimal consciousness, and explore the far-reaching biological, psychological, and philosophical implications. After presenting the historical, neurobiological, and philosophical foundations of their analysis, Ginsburg and Jablonka propose that the evolutionary marker of basic or minimal consciousness is a complex form of associative learning, which they term unlimited associative learning (UAL). UAL enables an organism to ascribe motivational value to a novel, compound, non-reflex-inducing stimulus or action, and use it as the basis for future learning. Associative learning, Ginsburg and Jablonka argue, drove the Cambrian explosion and its massive diversification of organisms. Finally, Ginsburg and Jablonka propose symbolic language as a similar type of marker for the evolutionary transition to human rationality—to Aristotle's “rational soul.”
Author : Henry Edward Crampton
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (64 download)
Download or read book The Doctrine of Evolution: Its Basis and Its Scope written by Henry Edward Crampton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-16 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Doctrine of Evolution by Henry Edward Crampton describes in concise outline the Doctrine of Evolution, its basis in the facts of natural history, and its wide and universal scope.
Author : Esteban Garcia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781070723716
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (237 download)
Download or read book Time and The Predicament of Enrichment written by Esteban Garcia and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-29 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everything in the universe has a counterpart and for every action there is a reaction, and they can be either in balance or unstable. A duality that is the result of a three-dimensional universe bound by mathematical relationships that give meaning to the information, which can only be changed or transformed. A permanent universe made of particles and tension of similar pressure and repulsion that produces a tendency to balance and a predictable rate of decadence, a performance we also know as energy, gravity, and matter. A structural integrity that determines the properties of the elements and is true for all systems consistent with the three parts atom, a spectrum that goes from heavy to light, solid to gas, uncompromising and flexible, permanent and fleeting, slow and fast, and a pace we also know as time. Time is not a predetermine line just like space doesn't fold, time is gravity and acceleration, a diminishing return produced by space negation of energy, which produces a sequence of event that increase in frequency the smaller the event. With space as the absolute the past remains fixed somewhere generating a memory although the cause is constantly turning into the effect, it is projected to the generalization. Starting from the smaller scale time would seem to slow down until there is no point of reference, the cycles become slower and there is nothing to compare it with, big and small become one. Our energy-time awareness is a matter of scales, and a performance that improves with society.There is only a big permanent universe that changes little, yesterday and tomorrow are patterns, the numbers one, two, three, four can only have a relative significance. They don't have an inherent value and need points of references to express a meaning. Time is normally restored in cycles (or statistical associations), if you stretch the information it twists and melts, and if you twist it, it accelerates. The tension determines the interaction between the demand and the capacity, meaning things tend to agglutinate and the capacity generally chases the demand losing ground, moving faster increases the energy/time deficit.
Author : Philip Clayton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191619604
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Predicament of Belief written by Philip Clayton and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does it make sense - can it make sense - for someone who appreciates the explanatory power of modern science to continue believing in a traditional religious account of the ultimate nature and purpose of our universe? This book is intended for those who care about that question and are dissatisfied with the rigid dichotomies that dominate the contemporary debate. The extremists won't be interested - those who assume that science answers all the questions that matter, and those so certain of their religious faith that dialogue with science, philosophy, or other faith traditions seems unnecessary. But far more people today recognize that matters of faith are complex, that doubt is endemic to belief, and that dialogue is indispensable in our day. In eight probing chapters, the authors of The Predicament of Belief consider the most urgent reasons for doubting that religious claims - in particular, those embedded in the Christian tradition - are likely to be true. They develop a version of Christian faith that preserves the tradition's core insights but also gauges the varying degrees of certainty with which those insights can still be affirmed. Along the way, they address such questions as the ultimate origin of the universe, the existence of innocent suffering, the challenge of religious plurality, and how to understand the extraordinary claim that an ancient teacher rose from the dead. They end with a discussion of what their conclusions imply about the present state and future structure of churches and other communities in which Christian affirmations are made.
Author : Craig Dilworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511689765
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (897 download)
Download or read book Too Smart for Our Own Good written by Craig Dilworth and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We are destroying our natural environment at a constantly increasing pace, and in so doing undermining the preconditions of our own existence. Why is this so? This book reveals that our ecologically disruptive behavior is in fact rooted in our very nature as a species. Drawing on evolution theory, biology, anthropology, archaeology, economics, environmental science and history, this book explains the ecological predicament of humankind by placing it in the context of the first scientific theory of our species' development, taking over where Darwin left off. The theory presented is applied in detail to the whole of our seven-million-year history. Due to its comprehensiveness, and in part thanks to its extensive glossary and index, this book can function as a compact encyclopedia covering the whole development of Homo sapiens. It would also suit a variety of courses in the life and social sciences. Most importantly, Too Smart makes evident the very core of the paradigm to which our species must shift if it is to survive. Anyone concerned about the future of humankind should read this ground-breaking work. This book: Provides the first and only theory of humankind's development; Explains that economic and political (military) power have their respective biological bases in individual vs. group territoriality; Provides the first classification of human instincts: into the survival, sexual and social instincts; Provides the most inclusive characterization of different kinds of population check yet presented; Explains the importance of the anthropological, archaeological and economic findings of the past 50 years to understanding humankind's development; Clarifies the preconditions for human life on earth; Predicts what will happen to us in the near future"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Andrew Cohen
Publisher : SelectBooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1590792297
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (97 download)
Download or read book Evolutionary Enlightenment written by Andrew Cohen and published by SelectBooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Evolutionary Enlightenment, Andrew Cohen redefines spiritual awakening for our contemporary world—a world characterized by exponential change and an ever-expanding appreciation for the processes of evolution. Cohen’s message is simple, yet profound: Life is evolution, and enlightenment is about waking up to this fundamentally creative impulse as your own deepest, most authentic self. Through five tenets for living an enlightened life, Cohen will empower you to wholeheartedly participate in the process of change as your own spiritual practice. Evolutionary Enlightenment not only makes deep sense of life today; it will show you how to play an active role in shaping the world of tomorrow.
Author : Kevin C. Burns
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108422012
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Evolution in Isolation written by Kevin C. Burns and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tests for repeated patterns in evolution of island plants, which together comprise an 'island syndrome' analogous to animals.
Author : Philip Clayton
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802826954
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Evolution and Ethics written by Philip Clayton and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2004-08-04 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Certain to engage scholars, students, and general readers alike, Evolution and Ethics offers a balanced, levelheaded, constructive approach to an often divisive debate.
