The meaning of evolution
Subtitle: the morphological construction and ideological reconstruction of Darwin's theory
By: Robert J. Richards.
Series: Science and its conceptual foundations
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
Subjects: Evolution (Biology)
Description: This provocative reading of Darwin goes directly to the origins of evolutionary theory. Unlike most contemporary biologists or historians and philosophers of science, Richards holds that Darwin did concern himself with the idea of progress, or telos, as he constructed his theory. Richards maintains that Darwin drew on the traditional embryological meanings of the terms 'evolution' and 'descent with modification'.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-190) and index.