• Darwin's corals[electronic resource] :a new model of evolution and the tradition of Natural History /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 576.8
    書名/作者: Darwin's corals : a new model of evolution and the tradition of Natural History // Horst Bredekamp ; translated, edited, and adapted by Elizabeth Clegg.
    作者: Bredekamp, Horst,
    其他作者: Clegg, Elizabeth.
    出版者: Berlin : : De Gruyter,, c2019.
    面頁冊數: 1 online resource (x, 117 p.) : : ill (some col.), col. map.
    附註: Edition statement from page vii.
    標題: Evolution (Biology)
    標題: Phylogeny.
    標題: Natural history illustration.
    標題: Coral reefs and islands.
    標題: Corals in art.
    ISBN: 9783110680317
    書目註: Includes bibliographical references and index.
    摘要、提要註: 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.
    電子資源: http://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110680317
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