Selezione naturale ed equilibrio mobile della natura. L'evoluzionismo di Alfred Russel Wallace tra Darwin e Spencer (2022)
Roberta Visone (Author)
Liguori Editore
Physical Details: 166 pp.
Language: Italian
Il volume ricostruisce alcune tappe salienti della riflessione di Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), collocandola “tra Darwin e Spencer” all’interno del dibattito evoluzionistico britannico di metà Ottocento. Pur essendo considerato il “co-scopritore” del meccanismo della selezione naturale, del quale condivide la paternità con Darwin, Wallace si differenzia significativamente da quest’ultimo e abbraccia una visione complessiva dei processi evolutivi che risente dell’influenza delle posizioni assunte da Spencer sui temi dell’evoluzione intesa come “progresso”. Tramite la filosofia spenceriana transitano così, nelle teorie di Wallace, elementi concettuali incompatibili con aspetti essenziali delle dottrine darwiniane, e anzitutto con l’incidenza che in esse gioca la casualità nelle sue plurivoche accezioni. [Abstract translated by DeepL Translator: This is the abstract in English… This volume reconstructs some salient stages of Alfred Russel Wallace's (1823-1913) thinking, placing it "between Darwin and Spencer" within the mid-nineteenth-century British evolutionary debate. Although he is considered the "co-discoverer" of the mechanism of natural selection, for which he shares authorship with Darwin, Wallace differs significantly from the latter and embraces a comprehensive view of evolutionary processes that is influenced by the positions taken by Spencer on issues of evolution understood as "progress." Thus, through Spencerian philosophy transits, in Wallace's theories, conceptual elements incompatible with essential aspects of Darwinian doctrines, and first and foremost with the incidence that randomness plays in them in its multifarious meanings.]
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