Images of the Economy of Nature, 1650-1930 From "Nature’s War" to Darwin’s "Struggle for Life" /

The book discusses ideas concerning the order and balance of nature (or "economy of nature") from the late 17th century to the early 20th century. The perspective taken is broad, longue durée and interdisciplinary, and reveals the interplay of scientific, philosophical, moral and social id...

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Autor principal: La Vergata, Antonello (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Lenguaje:inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2023.
Edición:1st ed. 2023.
Colección:Evolutionary Biology – New Perspectives on Its Development, 7
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Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-31023-2
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Abundance and Variety
  • Chapter 3: Evil in Nature
  • Chapter 4: Carnivores, Extinctions, and the Beast
  • Chapter 5: Struggle for Life vs Evolution
  • Chapter 6: The Struggle for Existence, or, What’s in a Metaphor?
  • Chapter 7: New Places in the Economy of Nature
  • Chapter 8: Survival of the Fittest and Cosmical Evolution
  • Chapter 9: Struggles for Existence
  • Chapter 10: Another Now, or a Vindication of a “Historical History of Science”.