The Meaning of Evolution: The Morphological Construction and Ideological Reconstruction of Darwin's TheoryUniversity of Chicago Press, 2 февр. 2009 г. - Всего страниц: 222 Did Darwin see evolution as progressive, directed toward producing ever more advanced forms of life? Most contemporary scholars say no. In this challenge to prevailing views, Robert J. Richards says yes—and argues that current perspectives on Darwin and his theory are both ideologically motivated and scientifically unsound. This provocative new reading of Darwin goes directly to the origins of evolutionary theory. Unlike most contemporary biologists or historians and philosophers of science, Richards holds that Darwin did concern himself with the idea of progress, or telos, as he constructed his theory. Richards maintains that Darwin drew on the traditional embryological meanings of the terms "evolution" and "descent with modification." In the 1600s and 1700s, "evolution" referred to the embryological theory of preformation, the idea that the embryo exists as a miniature adult of its own species that simply grows, or evolves, during gestation. By the early 1800s, however, the idea of preformation had become the concept of evolutionary recapitulation, the idea that during its development an embryo passes through a series of stages, each the adult form of an ancestor species. Richards demonstrates that, for Darwin, embryological recapitulation provided a graphic model of how species evolve. If an embryo could be seen as successively taking the structures and forms of its ancestral species, then one could see the evolution of life itself as a succession of species, each transformed from its ancestor. Richards works with the Origin and other published and archival material to show that these embryological models were much on Darwin's mind as he considered the evidence for descent with modification. Why do so many modern researchers find these embryological roots of Darwin's theory so problematic? Richards argues that the current tendency to see evolution as a process that is not progressive and not teleological imposes perspectives on Darwin that incorrectly deny the clearly progressive heart of his embryological models and his evolutionary theory. |
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... transformed over two centuries into the more familiar one referring to species change , while yet retaining vestiges of its past . The historical missing link between the two meanings of evolution was a theory that had been thought ...
... transformed over two centuries into the more familiar one referring to species change , while yet retaining vestiges of its past . The historical missing link between the two meanings of evolution was a theory that had been thought ...
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... transformed , passing through the principle of recapitulation , finally to refer to spe- cies descent . I use the term " evolution " itself , and its various cognate and derived forms in the several European lan- guages , as the marker ...
... transformed , passing through the principle of recapitulation , finally to refer to spe- cies descent . I use the term " evolution " itself , and its various cognate and derived forms in the several European lan- guages , as the marker ...
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... transformation in the transcendental principle of recapitulation — the idea that the embryo of a higher organ- ism passes through the adult forms of lower organisms ; and its new life as a term for species change . In chapter 4 I will ...
... transformation in the transcendental principle of recapitulation — the idea that the embryo of a higher organ- ism passes through the adult forms of lower organisms ; and its new life as a term for species change . In chapter 4 I will ...
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... transforming meaning of " evolution " and an embryological - developmental meaning of the term , the latter having been suggested by von Baer . However , he argues that in Darwin's case , " it is not easy to connect the use of the term ...
... transforming meaning of " evolution " and an embryological - developmental meaning of the term , the latter having been suggested by von Baer . However , he argues that in Darwin's case , " it is not easy to connect the use of the term ...
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... transformed into a butterfly ; and the pro- cess per epigenesin , in which the organs of the higher animals developed sequentially , changing gradually from an amor- phous , homogeneous condition to an articulated , hetero- geneous ...
... transformed into a butterfly ; and the pro- cess per epigenesin , in which the organs of the higher animals developed sequentially , changing gradually from an amor- phous , homogeneous condition to an articulated , hetero- geneous ...
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The Morphological Construction and Ideological Reconstruction of Darwins Theory 3 The Theory of Evolutionary Recapitulation in the Context of ... | 17 |
The Morphological Construction and Ideological Reconstruction of Darwins Theory 4 Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Species Change | 63 |
The Morphological Construction and Ideological Reconstruction of Darwins Theory 5 Darwins Embryological Theory of Progressive Evolution | 91 |
The Morphological Construction and Ideological Reconstruction of Darwins Theory 6 The Meaning of Evolution and the Ideological Uses of History | 167 |
The Morphological Construction and Ideological Reconstruction of Darwins Theory Bibliography | 181 |
The Morphological Construction and Ideological Reconstruction of Darwins Theory Index | 191 |
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