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Autore: | Todes Daniel Philip |
Titolo: | Darwin without Malthus : the struggle for existence in Russian evolutionary thought / / Daniel P. Todes |
Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 1989 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (242 p.) |
Disciplina: | 575.01/62/09 |
Soggetto topico: | Biology - Soviet Union - History |
Biology - Soviet Union - Philosophy - History | |
Natural selection - History | |
Note generali: | Includes index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Introduction; 1. Darwin's Metaphor and His Russian Audience; 2. Malthus, Darwin, and Russian Social Thought; 3. Beketov, Botany, and the Harmony of Nature; 4. Korzhinskii, the Steppe, and the Theory of Heterogenesis; 5. Mechnikov, Darwinism, and the Phagocytic Theory; 6. Kessler and Russia's Mutual Aid Tradition; 7. Kropotkin's Theory of Mutual Aid; 8. Severtsov, Timiriazev, and the Classical Tradition; Conclusion; Notes; Name Index; Subject Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | The first book in English to examine in detail the scientific work of 19th-century Russian evolutionists, and the first in any language to explore the relationship of their theories to their economic, political, and natural milieu. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Darwin without Malthus |
ISBN: | 1-280-52389-1 |
9786610523894 | |
0-19-536327-2 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910824632903321 |
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