The theory of evolution and its impact
by Fasolo, Aldo
Year 2009 was the triumph of Darwin as a global superstar, spinning from the pop icon to the actual understanding to what make him a great innovator, able to give a turn to whole modern culture. Does all this activity mean evolution has lost its ability to excite fear and opposition? After such a deluge of books, conferences, reviews, gadgets, what is today our vision on theory of Evolution and its Impact? These are the questions asked at an inter-academy conference held in Torino (May 27-29, 2…
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- Full title :The theory of evolution and its impact / Aldo Fasolo, editor.
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Year 2009 was the triumph of Darwin as a global superstar, spinning from the pop icon to the actual understanding to what make him a great innovator, able to give a turn to whole modern culture. Does all this activity mean evolution has lost its ability to excite fear and opposition? After such a deluge of books, conferences, reviews, gadgets, what is today our vision on theory of Evolution and its Impact? These are the questions asked at an inter-academy conference held in Torino (May 27-29, 2010) among the Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and the Berlin-B.
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- Publication Date:©2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Springer-Verlag Italia
- Place of Publication:Milano
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (vi, 228 pages) : : illustrations (some color)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9788847019744, 8847019745
- oclc:ocn765958545
- LC Classification:QH366.2
- Dewey Decimal:576.8/2
Table of Contents
The Theory of Evolution and Its Impact; Contents; Introduction: The Sand Walk (on the Darwin ́s Steps); Idola Tribus: Lamarck, Politics and Religion in the Early Nineteenth Century; Darwinism Past and Present: Is It Past Its ``Sell-by ́ ́ Date?; Evolutionary Theory and Philosophical Darwinism; Struggle for Existence: Selection, Retention and Extinction of a Metaphor*; The Theory of Evolution and Cultural Anthropology; The Concept of Evolution in Linguistics; Theory of Evolution and Genetics; Genes, Evolution and the Development of the Embryo.
Evolutionary Mechanisms and Neural Adaptation: Selective Versus Constructive Strategies in the Development and Plasticity of t ... Is the Human Brain Unique?; Aristotle and the Chicken: Animacy and the Origins of Beliefs; Evolution: Remarks on the History of a Concept Adopted by Darwin; An Evolving Research Programme: The Structure of Evolutionary Theory from a Lakatosian Perspective.
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