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LIFE'S SPLENDID DRAMA
EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY AND THE RECONSTRUCTION OF LIFE'S ANCESTRY |
| By: |
Peter J. Bowler |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£32.00 |
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£28.80 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0226069222 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780226069227 |
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| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
22 May, 1998 |
| Edition: |
2nd ed. |
| Series: |
Science & Its Conceptual Foundations S. |
| Pages: |
530 |
| Description: |
Histories of the Darwinian revolution have often paid more attention to theoretical debates than to the researchers who struggled to comprehend the deeper evolutionary significance of fossils. This is an account of evolutionary morphology and its relationship with palaeontology and biogeography. |
| Synopsis: |
The story of life's splendid drama has captivated generations of the general public, just as it has intrigued biologists, especially those who began to try to solve evolutionary puzzles in the years immediately after the publication of Darwin's "Origin of Species" in 1859. Yet histories of the Darwinian revolution have paid far more attention to theoretical debates and have largely ignored the researchers who struggled to comprehend the deeper evolutionary significance of fossil bones and the structures of living animals. Peter J. Bowler recovers some of this lost history in "Life's Splendid Drama", the definitive account of evolutionary morphology and its relationships with paleontology and bio--geography."Intriguing and insightful".--William Kimler, "American Scientist" "[A] volume of impressive scholarship and extensive references".-- "Library Journal" "One of Bowler's best".--Kevin Padian, "Nature" "[Bowler's] comprehensive review of the various debates and ideas in taxonomy, morphology, and vertebrate evolution . . . deserves the attention of biologists and other scholars interested in the history of ideas".-- "Choice" "The persistence of pre--Darwinian modes of thought in contemporary biology underlines the importance of Bowler's book. Its value is not only in the history it provides, but also in the way it illumines the present".--Peter J. Causton, "Boston Book Review" |
| Illustrations: |
35 halftones, 20 line drawings |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press |
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