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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “gregory radick”
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  • Disputed Inheritance

    The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology

    by Gregory Radick ...
    A root-and-branch rethinking of how history has shaped the science of genetics.In 1900, almost no one had heard of Gregor Mendel. Ten years later, he was famous as the father of a new science of heredity—genetics. Even today, Mendelian ideas serve as a standard point of entry for learning about genes. The message students receive is plain: the twenty-first century owes an enlightened understanding ... Read more

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  • Darwin in Ilkley

    by Mike Dixon, Gregory Radick ...
    When the Origins of Species was published on 24 November 1859, its author, Charles Darwin, was near the end of a nine-week stay in the remote Yorkshire village of Ilkley. He had come for the 'water cure' - a regime of cold baths and wet sheets - and for relaxation. But he used his time in Ilkley to shore up support, through extensive correspondence, for the extraordinary theory that the Origin ... Read more

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  • The Riddle of Organismal Agency

    New Historical and Philosophical Reflections

    Edited by Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, Jan Baedke, Guido I. Prieto, Gregory Radick ...
    Series series History and Philosophy of Biology
    The Riddle of Organismal Agency brings together historians, philosophers, and scientists for an interdisciplinary re-assessment of one of the long-standing problems in the scientific understanding of life.Marshalling insights from diverse sciences including physiology, comparative psychology, developmental biology, and evolutionary biology, the book provides an up-to-date survey of approaches to ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Darwin's Argument by Analogy

    From Artificial to Natural Selection

    by Roger M. White, Gregory Radick, M. J. S. Hodge ...
    In On the Origin of Species (1859), Charles Darwin put forward his theory of natural selection. Conventionally, Darwin's argument for this theory has been understood as based on an analogy with artificial selection. But there has been no consensus on how, exactly, this analogical argument is supposed to work – and some suspicion too that analogical arguments on the whole are embarrassingly weak. ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Simian Tongue

    The Long Debate about Animal Language

    by Gregory Radick ...
    In the early 1890s the theory of evolution gained an unexpected ally: the Edison phonograph. An amateur scientist used the new machine—one of the technological wonders of the age—to record monkey calls, play them back to the monkeys, and watch their reactions. From these soon-famous experiments he judged that he had discovered “the simian tongue,” made up of words he was beginning to translate, ... Read more

    $44.69 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Darwin

    Edited by Jonathan Hodge, Gregory Radick ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    The naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin (1809–82) ranks as one of the most influential scientific thinkers of all time. In the nineteenth century his ideas about the history and diversity of life - including the evolutionary origin of humankind - contributed to major changes in the sciences, philosophy, social thought and religious belief. The Cambridge Companion to Darwin has established ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

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    A Philosophical History of Number and Humanity from Antiquity to the Present

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    How to Use Data to Answer Questions, Avoid Statistical Traps, and Make Better Decisions

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