Darwin's Corals
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Author: Horst Bredekamp
To this day Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory of the "survival of the fittest" has been visualised 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.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.
ISBN 9783110643343. Birkhauser Verlag. hb. 136 pages. 45 colour ills. 24 x 15 cm.
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To this day Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory of the "survival of the fittest" has been visualised 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.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.
ISBN 9783110643343. Birkhauser Verlag. hb. 136 pages. 45 colour ills. 24 x 15 cm.
available