1st Edition

Origins and Species A Study of the Historical Sources of Darwinism and the Contexts of Some Other Accounts of Organic Diversity from Plato and Aristotle On

By MJS Hodge Copyright 1991
822 Pages
by Routledge

824 Pages
by Routledge

824 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1991, Origins and Species seeks to understand the historical origins of Darwinism. The book analyses the explanatory problem to which Darwinian theory was a response, while contrasting the Darwinian with two other traditions in the interpretation of organic diversity. The book looks in detail at both Charles Darwin’s theories and Alfred Russell Wallace’s theories of... Read more

Preface

Introduction

Part I

1. The Introduction, Creation and Origin of Species

2. The Alphabet and Grammar or Geology

3. Natural Causes, Natural Laws and Natural Selection

Part II

4. Forms and Order

5. The Order of the World and the Laws of Nature

6. The Course of Nature and the History of the Earth

Conclusion

Bibliography

Biography

M.J.S Hodge