Rose Darwin's Spectre

Evolutionary Biology in the Modern World
Core Textbook
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2263-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Rose, Michael R.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Evolutionsbiologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction 3

Pt. 1 Darwin and Darwinian Science 7

1 Darwin: The Reluctant Revolutionary 11

2 Heredity: The Problem of Variation 29

3 Selection: Nature Red in Tooth and Claw 48

4 Evolution: The Tree of Life 75

Pt. 2 Applications of Darwinism 93

5 Agriculture: Malthus Postponed 97

6 Medicine: Dying of Ignorance 110

7 Eugenics: Promethean Darwinism 134

Pt. 3 Understanding Human Nature 147

8 Origins: From Baboons to Archbishops 151

9 Psyche: Darwinism Meets Film Noir 167

10 Society: Ideology as Biology 184

11 Religion: The Spectre Haunting 202

Conclusion 210

Bibliographic Material and Notes 213

Index 229

Über Autor(innen)

Michael R. Rose is Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. A researcher in the biology of aging, he is known for selection experiments that made fruit flies live twice as long as normal. He is also the author of The Evolutionary Biology of Aging and a coeditor of Adaptation.