The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection (Classic Reprint) - Brossura

Aylmer Fisher, Ronald

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1527699943 ISBN 13: 9781527699946

Casa editrice: Forgotten Books, 2018

Riassunto

Excerpt from The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection

The other biological theories which have been put forward, either as auxiliaries, or as the sole means of organic evolution, are not quite in the same position. For advocates of Natural Selection have not failed to point out, What was evidently the chief attraction of the theory to Darwin and Wallace, that it proposes to give an account of the means of modification in the organic world by reference only to known or independently demonstrable, causes. The alternative theories of modification rely, avowedly, on hypothetical properties of living matter which are inferred from the facts of evolution them selves. Yet, although this distinction has often been made clear, its logical cogency could never be fully developed in the absence of a separate investigation of the independently demonstrable modes of causation which are claimed as its basis. The present book, with all the limitations of a first attempt, is at least an attempt to consider the theory of Natural Selection on its own merits.

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• Editore: Forgotten Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1527699943
• ISBN 13: 9781527699946
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 294