Darwiniana: essays and reviews pertaining to Darwinism.
The letters from these years reveal the main preoccupations of Darwin’s life with a new intensity. The period opens with a family tragedy in the death of Darwin’s oldest and favourite daughter, Anne, and it shows how, weary and mourning his dead child, Darwin persevered with his scientific work, single-mindedly committed to the completion of his barnacle research.
Darwiniana; Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism (English) by Gray, Asa. Darwiniana: Essays — Volume 02 (English) by Huxley, Thomas Henry. The Darwinian Hypothesis (English) by Huxley, Thomas Henry. Darwinism (1889) An exposition of the theory of natural selection, with some of its applications (English) by Wallace, Alfred Russel.
Alternatives to evolution by natural selection Last updated February 21, 2020 The mediaeval great chain of being as a staircase, implying the possibility of progress: Ramon Lull's Ladder of Ascent and Descent of the Mind, 1305. Alternatives to evolution by natural selection, also described as non-Darwinian mechanisms of evolution, (2) have been proposed by scholars investigating biology since.
A collected group of essays detailing the global spread of evolutionary science and related ideas over the 19th and 20th centuries. A variety of different approaches here, also dealing with a number of different societies and times. Overall, a very useful contribution to a complicated topic --- highly recommended to students of Science and Technology Studies, Evolutionary Biology, History, and.
Materials on and by the English naturalist and social critic Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), including bibliographies, lists, commentaries, a biography, and the full-text of hundreds of his writings.
Darwiniana, by Thomas Henry Huxley (Gutenberg text) Darwiniana: Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism, by Asa Gray (Gutenberg text) Darwinism: An Exposition of the Theory of Natural Selection, With Some of its Applications (second edition; London and New York: Macmillan and Co., 1889), by Alfred Russel Wallace (multiple formats at archive.org).
From Lecture 1, 'Philosophy', in a series of four James Arthur Lectures, 'Lectures on Time and its Mysteries' at New York University (Autumn 1978). Printed in 'Time Without End: Physics and Biology in an Open Universe', Reviews of Modern Physics (Jul 1979), 51, 449.