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Author : Elymer J. Murphy,Charles Darwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Evolution (Biology)
ISBN : 0863320015
Author : Daniel C. Dennett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781439126295
In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Boston Globe calls "one of the most provocative thinkers on the planet," focuses his unerringly logical mind on the theory of natural selection, showing how Darwin's great idea transforms and illuminates our traditional view of humanity's place in the universe. Dennett vividly describes the theory itself and then extends Darwin's vision with impeccable arguments to their often surprising conclusions, challenging the views of some of the most famous scientists of our day.
Author : John Gerard Messerly
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0847682439
The first full-length study of Jean Piaget as a philosopher and evolutionist. Messerly traces Piaget's earliest conjectures about knowledge through its further developments to its mature formulation as 'genetic epistemology.' Messerly analyzes Piaget's constructivist theory of the evolution of human knowledge as continuous with, yet partially transcending, the biological process of adaptation to the environment. Messerly's study serves as an invitation to further explorations with Paiget's theory and will interest philosophers, biologists, and psychologists.
Author : Frank Ryan
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Science
ISBN : 0618118128
In Ryan's view, cooperation, not competition, lies at the heart of human society.".
Author : Jerry Fodor,Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini
Publisher : Profile Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781847651907
Jerry Fodor and Massimo Piatelli-Palmarini, a distinguished philosopher and scientist working in tandem, reveal major flaws at the heart of Darwinian evolutionary theory. They do not deny Darwin's status as an outstanding scientist but question the inferences he drew from his observations. Combining the results of cutting-edge work in experimental biology with crystal-clear philosophical argument they mount a devastating critique of the central tenets of Darwin's account of the origin of species. The logic underlying natural selection is the survival of the fittest under changing environmental pressure. This logic, they argue, is mistaken. They back up the claim with evidence of what actually happens in nature. This is a rare achievement - the short book that is likely to make a great deal of difference to a very large subject. What Darwin Got Wrong will be controversial. The authors' arguments will reverberate through the scientific world. At the very least they will transform the debate about evolution.
Author : Robert E. Ulanowicz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : IND:30000067755029
Written by a highly accredited scientist, this book offers a compelling and original alternative to outdated approaches to the life sciences. It presents a metaphysical basis for living systems that significantly mitigates several purported conflicts between science and religion.
Author : Richard G. Delisle
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030172039
This book offers a thorough reanalysis of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, which for many people represents the work that alone gave rise to evolutionism. Of course, scholars today know better than that. Yet, few resist the temptation of turning to the Origin in order to support it or reject it in light of their own work. Apparently, Darwin fills the mythical role of a founding figure that must either be invoked or repudiated. The book is an invitation to move beyond what is currently expected of Darwin's magnum opus. Once the rhetorical varnish of Darwin's discourses is removed, one discovers a work of remarkably indecisive conclusions. The book comprises two main theses: (1) The Origin of Species never remotely achieved the theoretical unity to which it is often credited. Rather, Darwin was overwhelmed by a host of phenomena that could not fit into his narrow conceptual framework. (2) In the Origin of Species, Darwin failed at completing the full conversion to evolutionism. Carrying many ill-designed intellectual tools of the 17th and 18th centuries, Darwin merely promoted a special brand of evolutionism, one that prevented him from taking the decisive steps toward an open and modern evolutionism. It makes an interesting read for biologists, historians and philosophers alike.
Author : Nathaniel T Jeanson
Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614586340
If Darwin were to examine the evidence today using modern science, would his conclusions be the same? Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, published over 150 years ago, is considered one of history’s most influential books and continues to serve as the foundation of thought for evolutionary biology. Since Darwin’s time, however, new fields of science have immerged that simply give us better answers to the question of origins. With a Ph.D. in cell and developmental biology from Harvard University, Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson is uniquely qualified to investigate what genetics reveal about origins. The Origins Puzzle Comes Together If the science surrounding origins were a puzzle, Darwin would have had fewer than 15% of the pieces to work with when he developed his theory of evolution. We now have a much greater percentage of the pieces because of modern scientific research. As Dr. Jeanson puts the new pieces together, a whole new picture emerges, giving us a testable, predictive model to explain the origin of species. A New Scientific Revolution Begins Darwin’s theory of evolution may be one of science’s “sacred cows,” but genetics research is proving it wrong. Changing an entrenched narrative, even if it’s wrong, is no easy task. Replacing Darwin asks you to consider the possibility that, based on genetics research, our origins are more easily understood in the context of . . . In the beginning . . . God, with the timeline found in the biblical narrative of Genesis. There is a better answer to the origins debate than what we have been led to believe. Let the revolution begin! About the Author Dr. Nathaniel Jeanson is a scientist and a scholar, trained in one of the most prestigious universities in the world. He earned his B.S. in Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and his PhD in Cell and Developmental Biology from Harvard University. As an undergraduate, he researched the molecular control of photosynthesis, and his graduate work involved investigating the molecular and physiological control of adult blood stem cells. His findings have been presented at regional and national conferences and have been published in peer-reviewed journals, such as Blood, Nature, and Cell. Since 2009, he has been actively researching the origin of species, both at the Institute for Creation Research and at Answers in Genesis.
Author : Dorothy Boberg
Publisher : Clarion Pacific Pub
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Science
ISBN : 1881804070
Boberg presents a survey of the 3.8 million year fossil record, recent anthropological discoveries, and her new theory of complementary systems evolution.
Author : Miguel Ribeiro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9892095448
Darwinism came to influence all science because evolution by random mutation implies a purposeless and random universe - a view irreconcilable with the increasingly popular theories of the universe as information (like a computer, a hologram or a simulation) since the transmission of information is impossible by chance. Accordingly, " complexity cannot be achieved by chance" is the core premise of this thesis of the universe as a computer, in which the finely tuned laws of physics and constants of nature are set parameters of the proposed program rather than a phenomenal string of coincidences. Highlighting the analogy, our brain converts patterns of atoms and radiation into the world of our perception - like a computer program converts patterns of "zeroes and ones" into audiovisual animation. The book focuses on presenting a model of the emergence and evolution of life consistent with this information view of the universe - accordingly, adaptive mutation, a functional junk DNA, sentience and life as algorithms uphold the notion of the genome as software. The author clearly outlines the rationale that sets the program hypothesis apart from intelligent design and religion.
Author : A.N. Wilson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-12
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780062433510
A radical reappraisal of Charles Darwin from the bestselling author of Victoria: A Life. With the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin—hailed as the man who "discovered evolution"—was propelled into the pantheon of great scientific thinkers, alongside Galileo, Copernicus, and Newton. Eminent writer A. N. Wilson challenges this long-held assumption. Contextualizing Darwin and his ideas, he offers a groundbreaking critical look at this revered figure in modern science. In this beautifully written, deeply erudite portrait, Wilson argues that Darwin was not an original scientific thinker, but a ruthless and determined self-promoter who did not credit the many great sages whose ideas he advanced in his book. Furthermore, Wilson contends that religion and Darwinism have much more in common than it would seem, for the acceptance of Darwin's theory involves a pretty significant leap of faith. Armed with an extraordinary breadth of knowledge, Wilson explores how Darwin and his theory were very much a product of their place and time. The "Survival of the Fittest" was really the Survival of Middle Class families like the Darwins—members of a relatively new economic strata who benefited from the rising Industrial Revolution at the expense of the working classes. Following Darwin’s theory, the wretched state of the poor was an outcome of nature, not the greed and neglect of the moneyed classes. In a paradigm-shifting conclusion, Wilson suggests that it remains to be seen, as this class dies out, whether the Darwinian idea will survive, or whether it, like other Victorian fads, will become a footnote in our intellectual history. Brilliant, daring, and ambitious, Charles Darwin explores this legendary man as never before, and challenges us to reconsider our understanding of both Darwin and modern science itself.
Author : Ernst Michael Kranich
Publisher : SteinerBooks
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Science
ISBN : 0940262932
Through the work of Charles Darwin, a great task was set before science--to progress from opinions about evolution to a science of evolution, and reveal the inner laws and driving forces at work in the development of the organic world. In Thinking beyond Darwin, Ernst-Michael Kranich focuses on a central problem of evolutionary science. He shows us a way, based on Goethe's botanical and zoological investigations, of seeing the coherence and inner dynamics of organisms. Using Goethe's concept of type as a key to vertebrate evolution, Kranich methodically lays the foundation for a science of evolution. He focuses on the central problem of evolutionary science: are there underlying principles that connect the many disparate facts? By applying Goethe's method consistently to evolutionary thinking, Kranich shows that the laws and driving forces of evolution are encompassed by the inner lawfulness of living organisms and that we must participate through formative thinking in the evolutionary processes. Thinking beyond Darwin, makes an important contribution to the development of more adequate concepts of evolution and arrives at clear insights about earlier animal forms and evolutionary laws that could have immense consequences for future evolutionary thinking.
Author : Steve Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300181582
Examines the influence of Charles Darwin's lesser-known works, discussing his "Earthworms," "Expression of Emotions," "Self-Fertilization," and "Forms of Flowers," and explaining how these works influenced modern biology.
Author : David Quammen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393076349
"Quammen brilliantly and powerfully re-creates the 19th century naturalist's intellectual and spiritual journey."--Los Angeles Times Book Review Twenty-one years passed between Charles Darwin's epiphany that "natural selection" formed the basis of evolution and the scientist's publication of On the Origin of Species. Why did Darwin delay, and what happened during the course of those two decades? The human drama and scientific basis of these years constitute a fascinating, tangled tale that elucidates the character of a cautious naturalist who initiated an intellectual revolution.
Author : Randall Fuller
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780698186675
A compelling portrait of a unique moment in American history when the ideas of Charles Darwin reshaped American notions about nature, religion, science and race “A lively and informative history.” – The New York Times Book Review Throughout its history America has been torn in two by debates over ideals and beliefs. Randall Fuller takes us back to one of those turning points, in 1860, with the story of the influence of Charles Darwin’s just-published On the Origin of Species on five American intellectuals, including Bronson Alcott, Henry David Thoreau, the child welfare reformer Charles Loring Brace, and the abolitionist Franklin Sanborn. Each of these figures seized on the book’s assertion of a common ancestry for all creatures as a powerful argument against slavery, one that helped provide scientific credibility to the cause of abolition. Darwin’s depiction of constant struggle and endless competition described America on the brink of civil war. But some had difficulty aligning the new theory to their religious convictions and their faith in a higher power. Thoreau, perhaps the most profoundly affected all, absorbed Darwin’s views into his mysterious final work on species migration and the interconnectedness of all living things. Creating a rich tableau of nineteenth-century American intellectual culture, as well as providing a fascinating biography of perhaps the single most important idea of that time, The Book That Changed America is also an account of issues and concerns still with us today, including racism and the enduring conflict between science and religion.
