Book ID: CBB000063720

Evolutionary progress (1988)

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Nitecki, Matthew H. (Editor)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 1988
Physical Details: viii + 354 pp.; illus.; notes; index

Description Contents: Nitecki, Matthew H.: Discerning the criteria for concepts of progress. Hull, David L.: Progress in ideas of progress. Provine, William B.: Progress in evolution and meaning of life. Ayala, Francisco J.: Can “progress” be defined as a biological concept? Ruse, Michael: Molecules to men: Evolutionary biology and thoughts of progress. Richards, Robert J.: The moral foundations of the idea of evolutionary progress: Darwin, Spencer, and the Neo-Darwinians. Richardson, Robert C., Kane, Thomas C.: Orthogenesis and evolution in the 19th century. Dunnell, Robert C.: The concept of progress in cultural evolution. Urbanek, Adam: Morpho-physiological progress. Smith, John Maynard: Evolutionary progress and levels of selection. Wimsatt, William C., Schank, Jeffrey C.: Two constraints on the evolution of complex adaptations and the means of their avoidance. Wiley, E.O.: Enropy, evolution and progress. Raup, David M.: Testing the fossil record for evolutionary progress. Gould, Stephen Jay: On replacing the idea of progress with an operational notion of directionality.


Reviewed By

Review Greene, J.C. (1991) Review of "Evolutionary progress". Biology and Philosophy (pp. 99-106). unapi

Review Burian, R.M. (1992) Review of "Evolutionary progress". Philosophical Review (pp. 438-41). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Richards, Robert J. (1988) The moral foundations of the idea of evolutionary progress: Darwin, Spencer, and the neo-Darwinians. In: Evolutionary progress (p. 129). unapi

Chapter Richardson, Robert C.; Kane, Thomas C. (1988) Orthogenesis and evolution in the 19th century. In: Evolutionary progress (p. 149). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Larsen, Jordan
Suzuki, Márcio
Lenski, Richard E.
Redman, Samuel J.
Forgione, Fabio
Jason Nyerere Bundy
Concepts
Evolution
Science and religion
Philosophy of science
Darwinism
Human evolution
Anthropology
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
21st century
Medieval
20th century, late
Places
United States
Antarctica
Turin (Italy)
Spain
Russia
Italy
Institutions
Institute for the History of Sciences and Technology, Russian Academy of Science
Smithsonian Institution
History of Science Society
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