Darwin S Conjecture

Author : Geoffrey M. Hodgson,Thorbjørn Knudsen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226346922

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Darwin's Conjecture by Geoffrey M. Hodgson,Thorbjørn Knudsen Pdf

Of paramount importance to the natural sciences, the principles of Darwinism, which involve variation, inheritance, and selection, are increasingly of interest to social scientists as well. But no one has provided a truly rigorous account of how the principles apply to the evolution of human society—until now. In Darwin’s Conjecture, Geoffrey Hodgson and Thorbjørn Knudsen reveal how the British naturalist’s core concepts apply to a wide range of phenomena, including business practices, legal systems, technology, and even science itself. They also critique some prominent objections to applying Darwin to social science, arguing that ultimately Darwinism functions as a general theoretical framework for stimulating further inquiry. Social scientists who adopt a Darwinian approach, they contend, can then use it to frame and help develop new explanatory theories and predictive models. This truly pathbreaking workat long last makes the powerful conceptual tools of Darwin available to the social sciences and will be welcomed by scholars and students from a range of disciplines.

Author : Geoffrey M. Hodgson,Thorbjørn Knudsen
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780226346908

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Darwin's Conjecture by Geoffrey M. Hodgson,Thorbjørn Knudsen Pdf

A theoretical study dealing chiefly with matters of definition and clarification of terms and concepts involved in using Darwinian notions to model social phenomena.

Author : A. C. Seward
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 1050 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783387014860

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Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. Seward Pdf

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

Author : Dov Ospovat
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1995-04-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521469406

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The Development of Darwin's Theory by Dov Ospovat Pdf

In this highly acclaimed book, Ospovat shows that Darwin's views changed radically from his first formulation of evolution to the publication of the full theory in 1859.

Author : Curtis N. Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780190882945

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Darwins Historical Sketch by Curtis N. Johnson Pdf

Charles Darwin's "Historical Sketch" has appeared as a preface to nearly every authorized edition of Darwin's Origin of Species since the second English edition was published in 1860. The "Historical Sketch" provides a brief history of opinion about the species question as a prelude to Darwin's own independent contribution to the subject, but its provenance is somewhat obscure. While some previous thinkers anticipated portions of Darwin's theory long before he did, none of them saw the complete picture as clearly as Darwin. As such, he was able to claim originality and priority for the idea that has transformed our understanding of nature. His "Historical Sketch" was written as an attempt to address these issues. Some things are known about its production, such as when it first appeared and what changes were made to it between its first appearance in 1860 and its final form in 1866. Other questions remain unanswered. How did it evolve in Darwin's mind? Why did he write it at all? What did he think he was accomplishing by prefacing it to Origin of Species? Curtis Johnson approaches these questions, offering some clarity on the originality of Darwin's work. Darwin's "Historical Sketch" is the first comprehensive study of Darwin's "Preface" to Origin of Species. Johnson conveys the pressure Darwin felt from friends and other correspondents to showcase the originality of his theory, and he tackles questions of originality by carefully examining the 35 authors Darwin referenced in this monumental text.

Author : Brian D. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317154716

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Darwin's Medicine by Brian D. Smith Pdf

Darwin’s Medicine is the sequel to Brian D. Smith’s influential and critically acclaimed Future of Pharma (Gower, 2011). Whereas the earlier book predicted the evolution of the pharmaceutical market and the business models of pharmaceutical companies, Darwin’s Medicine goes much deeper into the drivers of industry change and how leading pharmaceutical and medical technology companies are adapting their strategies, structures and capabilities in practice. Through the lens of evolutionary science, Professor Smith explores the speciation of new business models in the Life Sciences Industry. This sophisticated and highly original approach offers insights into: The mechanisms of evolution in this exceptional industry; The six great technological and social shifts that are shaping its landscape; The emergence of 26 distinct, new business models; and The lessons that enable firms to direct and accelerate their own evolution. These insights map out the industry’s complex, changing landscape and provide an invaluable guide to those firms seeking to survive and thrive in this dynamic market. The book is essential reading for anyone working in or studying the pharmaceutical, medical technology and related sectors. It provides a unique and novel way of making sense of the transformation we can see going on around us and a practical, focused approach to managing a firm’s evolutionary trajectory.

Author : D.M. Hassler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789401024617

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The Comedian as the Letter D: Erasmus Darwin’s Comic Materialism by D.M. Hassler Pdf

The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. William Wordsworth, "Ode: Intimations of Immortality" Wallace Stevens said somewhere that the theory of poetry is the life of poetry.l Charles Darwin, who likes poetry, "recognized that at the eost of losing his appreciation of poetry and other things that delighted him in his youth, his mind had become a 'machine for grinding generallaws out of large colleetions of facts.' "2 Somewhere in between the polar positions of Stevens' extreme aesthetic belief and Darwin's extreme meehanistic belief lies the aesthetics of empirical thought and the whole modem Romantic tradition. There have been men in between who were both meehanists and poets, who both beIieved in automatic material meehanisms and tried to use the imagination. Erasmus Darwin was one of these "in between" figures. and since he lived early (1731-1802) in the modem scientific era he was one of the first. This older Darwin, the grandfather of Charles, has not been given due credit as a transitional figure in the development of the literature of our scientific era. Although historically and in terms of intelleetual stature the grandfather was a fanciful child compared to the giant grand soo, Erasmus Darwin's habits of thought anticipated one of the most distinguishing charaeteristics of his grandson. (The genetic suggestive.

Author : Peter J. Bowler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996-04-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0521562228

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Charles Darwin by Peter J. Bowler Pdf

Upon publication, Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species excited much debate and controversy, challenging the foundations of Christianity, nonetheless underpinning the Victorian concept of progress. It still evokes powerful and contradictory responses today. Peter Bowler's study of Darwin's life, first published in 1990, combines biography and cultural history. Emphasizing in particular the impact of Darwin's work, he shows how Darwin's contemporaries were unable to appreciate precisely those aspects of his thinking that are considered scientifically important today. He also demonstrates that Darwin was a product of his time, but he also transcended it by creating an idea capable of being exploited by twentieth-century scientists and intellectuals who had very different values from his own.

Author : David N. Livingstone
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421413273

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Dealing with Darwin by David N. Livingstone Pdf

How was Darwin’s work discussed and debated among the same religious denomination in different locations? Using place, politics, and rhetoric as analytical tools, historical geographer David N. Livingstone investigates how religious communities sharing a Scots Presbyterian heritage engaged with Darwin and Darwinism at the turn of the twentieth century. His findings, presented as the prestigious Gifford Lectures, transform our understandings of the relationship between science and religion. The particulars of place—whether in Edinburgh, Belfast, Toronto, Princeton, or Columbia, South Carolina—shaped the response to Darwin’s theories. Were they tolerated, repudiated, or welcomed? Livingstone shows how Darwin was read in different ways, with meaning distilled from Darwin's texts depending on readers' own histories—their literary genealogies and cultural preoccupations. That the theory of evolution fared differently in different places, Livingstone writes, is "exactly what Darwin might have predicted. As the theory diffused, it diverged." Dealing with Darwin shows the profound extent to which theological debates about evolution were rooted in such matters as anxieties over control of education, the politics of race relations, the nature of local scientific traditions, and challenges to traditional cultural identity. In some settings, conciliation with the new theory, even endorsement, was possible—demonstrating that attending to the specific nature of individual communities subverts an inclination to assume a single relationship between science and religion in general, evolution and Christianity in particular. Livingstone concludes with contemporary examples to remind us that what scientists can say and what others can hear in different venues differ today just as much as they did in the past.

Author : E. Janet Browne
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996-04-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691026060

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Charles Darwin by E. Janet Browne Pdf

Chronicles the life of Charles Darwin from his birth in 1809 through his mid-life, discussing his childhood in England, early schooling, first discoveries, personal challenges, voyage on the Beagle, and the early foundations of his "Origin of Species."

Author : Michael Shermer
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780195148305

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In Darwin's Shadow by Michael Shermer Pdf

A biography of the English naturalist covers his work in natural history, his relationship with Darwin, and his contribution to evolutionary theory.

Author : M.J.S. Hodge
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000939279

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Darwin Studies by M.J.S. Hodge Pdf

This is the second of a pair of volumes by Jonathan Hodge, collecting all his most innovative, revisionist and influential papers on Charles Darwin and on the longer run of theories about origins and species from ancient times to the present. The focus here is on Darwin himself and the development of his theories. Darwin is now such an iconic hero in our histories and such a commanding authority in our sciences that it has become a serious challenge to study him as just another disaffected medical student - or would-be vicar, aspiring zoology professor or gentleman of independent means -- thinking about sexual reproduction in animals and plants, about coral islands or about rock strata and fossils in post-Napoleonic Edinburgh, Cambridge, South America and London. But the challenge is one well worth taking up, as the papers here demonstrate, for such studies require us integrate the precise details of his inquiries with those larger scientific, metaphysical, religious and political issues of the day that a young, ambitious 'philosopher' and 'naturalist' was then expected to engage. This contextual understanding can then allow us to reinterpret his relations to such longer- run legacies as Christian Platonism, Enlightenment materialism and British capitalism. Together with the companion volume devoted to those and other long run legacies, this volume offers throughout reinterpretations of both the theorist and his theories.

Author : David Kohn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781400854714

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The Darwinian Heritage by David Kohn Pdf

Representing the present rich state of historical work on Darwin and Darwinism, this volume of essays places the great theorist in the context of Victorian science. The book includes contributions by some of the most distinguished senior figures of Darwin scholarship and by leading younger scholars who have been transforming Darwinian studies. The result is the most comprehensive survey available of Darwin's impact on science and society. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Richard G. Delisle,James Tierney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350259591

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Rereading Darwin’s Origin of Species by Richard G. Delisle,James Tierney Pdf

Widely seen as evolution's founding figure, Charles Darwin is taken by many evolutionists to be the first to propose a truly modern theory of evolution. Darwin's greatness, however, has obscured the man and his work, at times even to the point of distortion. Accessibly written, this book presents a more nuanced picture and invites us to discover some neglected ambiguities and contradictions in Darwin's masterwork. Delisle and Tierney show Darwin to be a man who struggled to reconcile the received wisdom of an unchanging natural world with his new ideas about evolution. Arguing that Darwin was unable to break free entirely from his contemporaries' more traditional outlook, they show his theory to be a fascinating compromise between old and new. Rediscovering this other Darwin – and this other side of On the Origin of Species – helps shed new light on the immensity of the task that lay before 19th century scholars, as well as their ultimate achievements.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1158 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-05
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015074112577

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Bibliography of the History of Medicine by Anonim Pdf