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Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection
Engelsk Hardback
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Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection
Engelsk Hardback

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Darwin's concept of natural selection has been exhaustively studied, but his secondary evolutionary principle of sexual selection remains largely unexplored and misunderstood. Yet sexual selection was of great strategic importance to Darwin because it explained things that natural selection could not and offered a naturalistic, as opposed to divine, account of beauty and its perception. Only now, with Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection, do we have a comprehensive and meticulously researched account of Darwin's path to its formulation one that shows the man, rather than the myth, and examines both the social and intellectual roots of Darwin's theory. Drawing on the minutiae of his unpublished notes, annotations in his personal library, and his extensive correspondence, Evelleen Richards offers a richly detailed, multilayered history. Her fine-grained analysis comprehends the extraordinarily wide range of Darwin's sources and disentangles the complexity of theory, practice, and analogy that went into the making of sexual selection. Richards deftly explores the narrative strands of this history and vividly brings to life the chief characters involved. Twenty years in the making and a true milestone in the history of science, Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection illuminates the social and cultural contingencies of the shaping of an important if controversial biological concept.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
672
ISBN-13:
9780226436906
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
022643690X
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
27 apr 2017
Længde:
54mm
Bredde:
241mm
Højde:
165mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
27 apr 2017
Forfatter(e):
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