Thinking Beyond Darwin: The Idea of the Type As a Key to Vertebrate Evolution - Couverture souple

Kranich, Ernst-Michael

 
9780940262935: Thinking Beyond Darwin: The Idea of the Type As a Key to Vertebrate Evolution
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0940262932 ISBN 13 : 9780940262935
Editeur : Lindisfarne Books, 1999

Synopsis

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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Éditeur
Lindisfarne Books
Date d'édition
1999
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0940262932
ISBN 13 
9780940262935
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
188
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Personne responsable
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