Darwin's Spectre (eBook)
288 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2263-8 (ISBN)
RoseMichael R.:
Michael R. Rose is Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. A researcher in the biology of aging, he is known for selection experiments that made fruit flies live twice as long as normal. He is also the author of The Evolutionary Biology of Aging and a coeditor of Adaptation.
Extending the human life-span past 120 years. The "e;green"e; revolution. Evolution and human psychology. These subjects make today's newspaper headlines. Yet much of the science underlying these topics stems from a book published nearly 140 years ago--Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species. Far from an antique idea restricted to the nineteenth century, the theory of evolution is one of the most potent concepts in all of modern science. In Darwin's Spectre, Michael Rose provides the general reader with an introduction to the theory of evolution: its beginning with Darwin, its key concepts, and how it may affect us in the future. First comes a brief biographical sketch of Darwin. Next, Rose gives a primer on the three most important concepts in evolutionary theory--variation, selection, and adaptation. With a firm grasp of these concepts, the reader is ready to look at modern applications of evolutionary theory. Discussing agriculture, Rose shows how even before Darwin farmers and ranchers unknowingly experimented with evolution. Medical research, however, has ignored Darwin's lessons until recently, with potentially grave consequences. Finally, evolution supplies important new vantage points on human nature. If humans weren't created by deities, then our nature may be determined more by evolution than we have understood. Or it may not be. In this question, as in many others, the Darwinian perspective is one of the most important for understanding human affairs in the modern world. Darwin's Spectre explains how evolutionary biology has been used to support both valuable applied research, particularly in agriculture, and truly frightening objectives, such as Nazi eugenics. Darwin's legacy has been a comfort and a scourge. But it has never been irrelevant.
Michael R. Rose is Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of California, Irvine. A researcher in the biology of aging, he is known for selection experiments that made fruit flies live twice as long as normal. He is also the author of The Evolutionary Biology of Aging and a coeditor of Adaptation.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 31.1.2000 |
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Verlagsort | Princeton |
Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik | |
Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution | |
Technik | |
Schlagworte | Adaptation and Natural Selection • Behavior • Behavioral modernity • Biological constraints • Biological Determinism • Biology • bird • Blending inheritance • Calculation • Charles Darwin • child bride • circular reasoning • Creation Science • Criticism of evolutionary psychology • Darwinism • Darwin on Trial • Death • Directional selection • Emerging Technologies • E. O. Wilson • Erasmus Darwin • Ernst Haeckel • Ethology • Eugenics • Eugenics in the United States • euthanasia • Evolution • evolutionary biology • Evolutionary Psychology • Evolution of ageing • Evolution of Infectious Disease • Evolution of sexual reproduction • Genetics and the Origin of Species • Herbert Spencer • heredity • human behavior • Human evolution (origins of society and culture) • Inbreeding • Incest • infanticide • invisible Hand • J. B. S. Haldane • Jean-Jacques Rousseau • John Maynard Smith • Jonathan Weiner • Joseph Priestley • Julian Jaynes • just-so story • Karl Pearson • kin selection • Konrad Lorenz • lamarckism • Machiavellian intelligence • Marshall Sahlins • mating • Mendelian Inheritance • Mutationism • Natural selection • Objections to evolution • ON HUMAN NATURE • Oppression • organism • paleobiology • pangenesis • pathogen • Psychopathy • Quantitative genetics • racial hygiene • Racism • Rate of evolution • Recapitulation theory • reproductive isolation • Robert Nozick • Ronald Fisher • scopes trial • Sexual Preference (book) • Sexual Selection • Social Darwinism • Sociobiology • Speciation • Spontaneous Generation • State of nature • Superiority (short story) • The Adapted Mind • The Beak of the Finch • The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex • The Evolution of Desire • The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection • the theory of evolution • Thomas Henry Huxley • Thomas Hunt Morgan • Thomas Robert Malthus • Thought • Transmutation of species • Utilitarianism • W. D. Hamilton • william bateson • william paley • worker bee • Zoonomia |
ISBN-10 | 1-4008-2263-7 / 1400822637 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4008-2263-8 / 9781400822638 |
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