Buch

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Übersicht

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Verlag	:	Springer International Publishing
Buchreihe	:	Evolutionary Biology – New Perspectives on Its Development
Sprache	:	Englisch
Erschienen	:	07. 10. 2023
Seiten	:	616
Einband	:	Gebunden
Höhe	:	235 mm
Breite	:	155 mm
Gewicht	:	1093 g
ISBN	:	9783031310225
Sprache	:	Englisch
Illustrationen	:	V, 616 p. 6 illus., 3 illus. in color.

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Autorinformation

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Antonello La Vergata  was full professor of the History of Philosophy at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia until his retirement in 2022. He has also been visiting professor of the History of Science at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva, and at the Stanford University Program in Florence. He was awarded the Prix Marc-Auguste Pictet by the Société de Physique et d'Histoire Naturelle de Genève (1995), and the “Giuseppe Montalenti Medal” by the Department of Evolutionary Biology “Charles Darwin”, at the University of Rome (2014). He is a member of the editorial board of various scientific/historical journals, and has published over 250 articles and six books. His research areas include: the history of evolution theories; relations between the life sciences, philosophy and the social sciences; war; images of nature and man’s place in nature; science and literature.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Abundance and Variety.- Chapter 3: Evil in Nature.- Chapter 4: Carnivores, Extinctions, and the Beast.- Chapter 5: Struggle for Life vs Evolution.- Chapter 6: The Struggle for Existence, or, What’s in a Metaphor?.- Chapter 7: New Places in the Economy of Nature.- Chapter 8: Survival of the Fittest and Cosmical Evolution.- Chapter 9: Struggles for Existence.- Chapter 10: Another Now, or a Vindication of a “Historical History of Science”.

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