Thinking Beyond Darwin: The Idea of Living Form as a Key to Vertebrate Evolution: The Type as a Key to Vertebrate Evolution (Renewal in Science) - Softcover

Fedden, Matthew

 
9780940262935: Thinking Beyond Darwin: The Idea of Living Form as a Key to Vertebrate Evolution: The Type as a Key to Vertebrate Evolution (Renewal in Science)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0940262932 ISBN 13: 9780940262935
Verlag: LINDISFARNE PR, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Focusing on a central problem of the evolution of vertebrae, the author questions whether there is a principle underlying the disparate animal forms. He shows that there is. Following Goethe, he points out that a key to understanding the great variety of vertebrates lies in the plasticity of what he calls the "vertebrate type". He goes on to show how successive classes of vertebrates can be seen as increasingly complete manifestations of the type. Thus the driving forces of evolution are found in the inner lawfulness of living organisms, each of which is itself a manifestation of the type in action.

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Verlag
LINDISFARNE PR
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0940262932
ISBN 13 
9780940262935
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
192
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