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The reception of Darwinism in the Iberian world : Spain, Spanish America, and Brazil
- Title
- The reception of Darwinism in the Iberian world : Spain, Spanish America, and Brazil / edited by Thomas F. Glick, Miquel Angel Puig-Samper, and Rosaura Ruiz.
- Publication
- Boston, MA : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.
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- Description
- xii, 272 pages; 25 cm.
- Series Statement
- Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 221
- Uniform Title
- Darwinismo en España e Iberoamérica. English.
- Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 221.
- Subject
- Note
- Selected papers from a colloquium held in Cancún, Mexico, Nov. 10-14, 1997.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Pt. 1. The Reception of Darwinism. The Evolutionist Mentality in Argentina: An Ideology of Progress / Marcelo Montserrat. The Reception of Darwinism in Uruguay / Thomas F. Glick. Biological Evolutionism in Cuba at the End of the Nineteenth Century / Pedro M. Pruna Goodgall. The Introduction of Darwinism in Brazil / Heloisa Maria Bertol Domingues and Magali Romero Sa. Natural History, High-Altitude Physiology and Evolutionary Ideas in Peru / Marcos Cueto. Reprercussions of Evolutionism in the Spanish Natural History Society / Francisco Pelayo. Darwinism and Botany: The Acceptance of Darwinian Concepts in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Botanical Studies / Susana Pinar. Darwinism in Spanish Physical Anthropology / Miguel Angel Puig-Samper -- Pt. 2. Eugenics, Degeneration and Social Darwinism. The Mexican Eugenics Society: Racial Selection and Improvement / Laura Suarez Y. Lopez-Guazo. Darwinism, Eugenics and Mendelism in Cuban Biological Education: 1900-1959 / Armando Garcia Gonzalez.
- The Theory of Degeneration in Spain (1886-1920) / Ricardo Campos Marin and Rafael Huertas. The Moral Economy of Nature: Darwinism and the Struggle for Life in Spanish Anarchism (1882-1914) / Alvaro Giron. "Desvio al Paraiso": Citizenship and Social Darwinism in Bolivia, 1880-1920 / Marta Irurozqui -- Pt. 3. Theoretical Perspectives. The Scientific and Popular Receptions of Darwin, Freud, and Einstein: Toward an Analytical History of the Diffusion of Scientific Ideas / Thomas F. Glick and Mark G. Henderson. Darwinism: Its Hard Core / Rosaura Ruiz and Francisco J. Ayala.
- ISBN
- 1402000820 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2001045953
- OCLC
- 59378262
- ocm59378262
- SCSB-4229670
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries