Chance in Evolution / / Grant Ramsey, Charles H. Pence |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (368 pages) |
Disciplina | 576.801 |
Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy
Chance |
Soggetto non controllato |
Charles Darwin
chance contingency evolution genetic drift history of biology macroevolution mutation natural selection |
ISBN | 0-226-40191-X |
Classificazione | WH 2100 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Chance in Evolution from Darwin to Contemporary Biology -- 1. Contingency, Chance, and Randomness in Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Biology -- 2. Chance and Chances in Darwin's Early Theorizing and in Darwinian Theory Today -- 3. Chance in the Modern Synthesis -- 4. Is it Providential, by Chance? Christian Objections to the Role of Chance in Darwinian Evolution -- 5. Does Darwinian Evolution Mean We Are Here by Chance? -- 6. The Reference Class Problem in Evolutionary Biology: Distinguishing Selection from Drift -- 7. Weak Randomness at the Origin of Biological Variation: The Case of Genetic Mutations -- 8. Parallel Evolution: What Does It (Not) Tell Us and Why Is It (Still) Interesting? -- 9. Contingent Evolution: Not by Chance Alone -- 10. History's Windings in a Flask: Microbial Experiments into Evolutionary Contingency -- 11. Rolling the Dice Twice: Evolving Reconstructed Ancient Proteins in Extant Organisms -- 12. Wonderful Life Revisited: Chance and Contingency in the Ediacaran-Cambrian Radiation -- References -- Contributors -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910838253403321 |
Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2016] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The changing role of the embryo in evolutionary thought : roots of evo-devo / Ron Amundson |
Autore | Amundson, Ron |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005 |
Descrizione fisica | xiii, 280 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
Disciplina | 576.801 |
Collana | Cambridge studies in philosophy and biology |
Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy
Developmental biology - Philosophy Embryology - Philosophy |
ISBN |
9780521806992
0521806992 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991002933469707536 |
Amundson, Ron | ||
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. del Salento | ||
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Darwin and design [[electronic resource] ] : does evolution have a purpose? / / Michael Ruse |
Autore | Ruse Michael |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 371 p. ) : ill |
Disciplina | 576.801 |
Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy
Teleology |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-674-04301-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface Introduction 1. Two Thousand Years of Design 2. Paley and Kant Fight Back 3. Sowing the Seeds of Evolution 4. A Plurality of Problems 5. Charles Darwin 6. A Subject Too Profound 7. Darwinian against Darwinian 8. The Century of Evolutionism 9. Adaptation in Action 10. Theory and Test 11. Formalism Redux 12. From Function to Design 13. Design as Metaphor 14. Natural Theology Evolves 15. Turning Back the Clock Sources and Suggested Reading Illustration Credits Acknowledgments Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910455133403321 |
Ruse Michael | ||
Cambridge, MA ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Darwin and design [[electronic resource] ] : does evolution have a purpose? / / Michael Ruse |
Autore | Ruse Michael |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 371 p. ) : ill |
Disciplina | 576.801 |
Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy
Teleology |
ISBN |
0-674-26690-0
0-674-04301-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface Introduction 1. Two Thousand Years of Design 2. Paley and Kant Fight Back 3. Sowing the Seeds of Evolution 4. A Plurality of Problems 5. Charles Darwin 6. A Subject Too Profound 7. Darwinian against Darwinian 8. The Century of Evolutionism 9. Adaptation in Action 10. Theory and Test 11. Formalism Redux 12. From Function to Design 13. Design as Metaphor 14. Natural Theology Evolves 15. Turning Back the Clock Sources and Suggested Reading Illustration Credits Acknowledgments Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778454303321 |
Ruse Michael | ||
Cambridge, MA ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Darwin and design : does evolution have a purpose? / / Michael Ruse |
Autore | Ruse Michael |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (x, 371 p. ) : ill |
Disciplina | 576.801 |
Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy
Teleology |
ISBN |
0-674-26690-0
0-674-04301-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Preface Introduction 1. Two Thousand Years of Design 2. Paley and Kant Fight Back 3. Sowing the Seeds of Evolution 4. A Plurality of Problems 5. Charles Darwin 6. A Subject Too Profound 7. Darwinian against Darwinian 8. The Century of Evolutionism 9. Adaptation in Action 10. Theory and Test 11. Formalism Redux 12. From Function to Design 13. Design as Metaphor 14. Natural Theology Evolves 15. Turning Back the Clock Sources and Suggested Reading Illustration Credits Acknowledgments Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910820611003321 |
Ruse Michael | ||
Cambridge, MA ; ; London, : Harvard University Press, 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Darwin and design : does evolution have a purpose? / Michael Ruse |
Autore | Ruse, Michael |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | x, 371 p. ; 24 cm |
Disciplina | 576.801 |
Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy
Teleology |
ISBN | 067401023X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISALENTO-991002226049707536 |
Ruse, Michael | ||
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2003 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. del Salento | ||
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Darwin's incomplete idea : Wittgenstein, language, our place in nature and our responsibility for the environment / / Gunnar Odhner |
Autore | Odhner Gunnar |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Wilmington, [Delaware] : , : Vernon Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (156 pages) |
Disciplina | 576.801 |
Soggetto topico | Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 1-62273-144-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910136032003321 |
Odhner Gunnar | ||
Wilmington, [Delaware] : , : Vernon Press, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Darwin's incomplete idea : Wittgenstein, language, our place in nature and our responsibility for the environment / / Gunnar Odhner |
Autore | Odhner Gunnar |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Wilmington, [Delaware] : , : Vernon Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (156 pages) |
Disciplina | 576.801 |
Soggetto topico | Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy |
ISBN | 1-62273-144-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798999003321 |
Odhner Gunnar | ||
Wilmington, [Delaware] : , : Vernon Press, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Darwin's incomplete idea : Wittgenstein, language, our place in nature and our responsibility for the environment / / Gunnar Odhner |
Autore | Odhner Gunnar |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Wilmington, [Delaware] : , : Vernon Press, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (156 pages) |
Disciplina | 576.801 |
Soggetto topico | Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy |
ISBN | 1-62273-144-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910810680303321 |
Odhner Gunnar | ||
Wilmington, [Delaware] : , : Vernon Press, , 2016 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Evolution in the antipodes [[electronic resource] ] : Charles Darwin and Australia / / Tom Frame |
Autore | Frame T. R (Thomas R.), <1962-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Sydney, : UNSW Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (316 p.) |
Disciplina |
303.40994
576.801 |
Soggetto topico |
Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy
Social Darwinism - Australia |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-74224-039-9
1-74223-104-7 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Victorian England: the moment; Charles Darwin: the man; Darwin Down Under; Reflections on Australia; Evolution and Upheaval in England; Scientific Disagreement in the Antipodes; Religious Responses; Darwin and Divine; Darwin and Disbelief; Creationism and Controversy; Creationism in Australia; Intelligent Design: theory or theology?; Darwinian Determinisms and Public Discourse; Darwin's Legacy; A Personal Postscript; Notes; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910139355103321 |
Frame T. R (Thomas R.), <1962-> | ||
Sydney, : UNSW Press, 2009 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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