Darwin's argument by analogy : from artificial to natural selection / Roger M. White, University of Leeds, M.J.S. Hodge, University of Leeds, Gregory Radick, University of Leeds.
"What can the actions of stockbreeders, as they select the best individuals for breeding, teach us about how new species of wild animals and plants come into being? Charles Darwin raised this question in his famous, even notorious, Origin of Species (1859). Darwin's answer - his argument b...
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| Language: | English |
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2021.
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| Summary: | "What can the actions of stockbreeders, as they select the best individuals for breeding, teach us about how new species of wild animals and plants come into being? Charles Darwin raised this question in his famous, even notorious, Origin of Species (1859). Darwin's answer - his argument by analogy from artificial to natural selection - is the subject of our book. We aim to clarify what kind of argument it is, how it works, and why Darwin gave it such prominence. As we explain more fully in our Introduction, we believe that the argument becomes much more intelligible when set, contextually, in a story stretching from classical Greek mathematics to modern evolutionary genetics: a long story, and a broad one too, encompassing everything from Darwin's earliest notebook theorising on the births and deaths of species, to agrarian capitalism as a distinctive form of economic life, to shifting Western reflections on art-nature relations"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 251 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781108769518 1108769519 9781108850957 1108850952 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/9781108769518 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 29, 2021). |