An analysis of Charles Darwin's On the origin of species : by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life

著者

    • Bryson, Kathleen
    • Msindai, Nadezda Josephine

書誌事項

An analysis of Charles Darwin's On the origin of species : by means of natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life

Kathleen Bryson and Nadejda [i.e. Nadezda] Josephine Msindai

(The Macat library)

Macat International , Distributed exclusively by Routledge, c2017

  • : pbk

大学図書館所蔵 件 / 2

この図書・雑誌をさがす

注記

Bibliography: p. [107]-114

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Charles Darwin called on a broad and unusually powerful combination of critical thinking skills to create his wide-ranging explanation for biological change, On the Origin of Species. It's one of those rare books that takes a huge problem - the enormous diversity of different species - and seeks to use a vast range of evidence to solve it. But it was perhaps Darwin's towering creative prowess that made the most telling contribution to this masterpiece, for it was this that enabled him to make the necessary fresh connections between so much disparate evidence from such a diversity of fields. All of Darwin's critical thinking skills were required, however, in the course of the decades of work that went into this volume. Taken as a whole, Darwin's solution to the problem that he set himself is carefully researched, considers multiple explanations, and justifies its conclusions with well-organised reasoning. At the time of the publication, in 1859, there were various explanations for the changes that Darwin - and others - observed; what separated Darwin from so many of his contemporaries is that he deployed critical thinking to arrive at a significantly new way of fitting explanation to evidence; one that remains elegant, complete and predictive to this day.

目次

Ways in to the Text Who was Charles Darwin? What does On the Origin of Species Say? Why does On the Origin of Species Matter? Section 1: Influences Module 1: The Author and the Historical Context Module 2: Academic Context Module 3: The Problem Module 4: The Author's Contribution Section 2: Ideas Module 5: Main Ideas Module 6: Secondary Ideas Module 7: Achievement Module 8: Place in the Author's Work Section 3: Impact Module 9: The First Responses Module 10: The Evolving Debate Module 11: Impact and Influence Today Module 12: Where Next? Glossary of Terms People Mentioned in the Text Works Cited

「Nielsen BookData」 より

関連文献: 1件中  1-1を表示

詳細情報

ページトップへ