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Darwin's coralsa new model of evolution and the tradition of Natural History /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Darwin's coralsHorst Bredekamp ; translated, edited, and adapted by Elizabeth Clegg.
Reminder of title:	a new model of evolution and the tradition of Natural History /
Author:	Bredekamp, Horst,
other author:	Clegg, Elizabeth.
Published:	Berlin :De Gruyter,c2019.
Description:	1 online resource (x, 117 p.) :ill (some col.), col. map.
Notes:	Edition statement from page vii.
Notes:	"Darwins Korallen. Die frühen Evolutionsdiagramme und die Tradition der Naturegeschichte, Berlin 2005 (2nd edn. 2006)."--Page vii.
Subject:	Evolution (Biology)
Online resource:	http://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110680317
ISBN:	9783110680317$q(electronic bk.)

Darwin's coralsa new model of evolution and the tradition of Natural History /
Bredekamp, Horst,1974-

Darwin's coralsa new model of evolution and the tradition of Natural History /[electronic resource] :Horst Bredekamp ; translated, edited, and adapted by Elizabeth Clegg. - English ed. - Berlin :De Gruyter,c2019. - 1 online resource (x, 117 p.) :ill (some col.), col. map.

Edition statement from page vii.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Frontmatter --

To this day Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory of the "survival of the fittest" has been visualized with the universal model of a tree of life. But early on in Darwin’s thinking the coral provided a fascinating alternative to the tree as a depiction of the evolution of the species. Horst Bredekamp shows how Darwin, a coral enthusiast and collector, found in it a more adequate illustration of evolution through natural selection: It grows anarchically in all directions and no longer upholds mankind as the "crown of creation." Using this example Darwin is proving himself to be both a destroyer and consummator of traditional natural philosophy. Since antiquity the coral had been a symbol of nature as a whole.

Translated from the German.

ISBN: 9783110680317$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1515/9783110680317doiSubjects--Personal Names:

176579
Darwin, Charles,
1809-1882.Subjects--Topical Terms:

178176
Evolution (Biology)

LC Class. No.: QH366.2 / .B7213 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 576.8

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