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How to read Darwin / Mark Ridley.

Title: How to read Darwin / Mark Ridley.
Author: Ridley, Mark.
Publication: London : Granta, c2005.

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viii, 119 p.; 20 cm.

Summary

"Charles Darwin's permanent legacy is his broad, abstract theories of evolution and natural selection, theories which he tested against an astonishing array of natural history evidence in his writing. Mark Ridley uses a question and answer approach to explain how Darwin carefully tackled problems, and shows how the reader can understand Darwin's arguments by first working out what question Darwin had implicitly set himself to answer."--Jacket.

Series Statement

How to read

Uniform Title

How to read (London, England)

Alternative Title

Darwin

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [114]-116) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

1. 'One long argument' -- 2. Natural selection -- 3. Difficulties on theory -- 4. Hybridism and biodiversity -- 5. The geological succession -- 6. The case for evolution -- 7. The social and moral faculties -- 8. Natural selection as affecting civilized nations -- 9. Sexual selection -- 10. The expression of the emotions.

ISBN

1862077282 (pbk.)

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library