Evolution debate 1813 1870 (20 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. Moving away from his earlier belief in a short, catastrophic history of the Earth, Buckland envisages instead progressive change as the Earth gradually cooled as it was prepared for human occupation. Extinct creatures did not die out because they were poorly designed; God loved the dinosaurs and had adapted them to…

Zustand: New. The history of evolutionary thought is often seen as a triumph of secularism in the form of "scientific naturalism", over religious bigotry. But for those involved in the debate during the 19th century, these divisions were not so clear. This collection brings together key works in the development of evolutionary t…

Kombiprodukt. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The history of evolutionary thought is often seen as a triumph of secularism in the form of 'scientific naturalism', over religious bigotry. But for those involved in the debate during the 19th century, these divisions were not so clear. This collection brings together key works in the devel…

Zustand: New. Charles Lyell's argument in this volume is that the processes of nature are slow and uniform, and that the Earth is in consequence hundreds of millions of years old. This work includes his prediction that if our nearest relatives are great apes, then the places to look for human fossils will be central Africa and I…

Zustand: New. Huxley was one of the first adherents to Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection. "Man's Place in Nature" was directed against Richard Owen, who claimed that there were differences between human and ape brains. Huxley showed that the two were fundamentally similar in every anatomical detail, thus applying…