Lance Workman

Charles Darwin

The Shaping of Evolutionary Thinking

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the history of thought surrounding the relationship between Darwinism and the behavioural sciences. Accessible and thought-provoking, it demonstrates how and why Darwinism remains both illuminating and controversial today.

Produktdetails

• Mind Shapers
• Verlag: Macmillan Education UK / Red Globe Press / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-0-230-30154-2
• 2013
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 288g
• ISBN-13: 9780230301542
• ISBN-10: 0230301541
• Artikelnr.: 39355215

Autorenporträt

Lance Workman is Visiting Professor at the University of South Wales, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Who was Charles Darwin?.- 2. Darwin's Greatest Work 'On the Origin of Species'.- 3. Sex and Emotions: Darwin's Other Great Works.- 4. Darwin and Darwinism.- 5. Is Darwin dangerous? Objections and Rejections From the Social Sciences.- 6. Ultra-Darwinism: Sociobiology and the Selfish Gene.- 7. Evolutionary Psychology: Darwin's Science of Behaviour Realised?.- 8. Conclusions: Darwinism Today.