Michael Ruse (Ontario University of Guelph)

Broschiertes Buch

Understanding Natural Selection

Beschreibung

Natural selection is seen to be profoundly important for understanding culture, morality and religion. This short book explains Charles Darwin's mechanism of natural selection and puts it in historical context. Written in clear language, it is accessible to the general reader as well as to philosophers, historians and biologists.

Autor

Michael Ruse is Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph, Ontario. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Gifford Lecturer, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and the recipient of four honorary degrees. He is the author/editor of over sixty books, including The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Darwin and Evolutionary Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2013); The Gaia Hypothesis: Life on a Pagan Planet (University of Chicago Press, 2013); Darwinism as Religion: What Literature Tells Us about Evolution (Oxford University Press, 2016), and The Cambridge History of Atheism (Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Produktdetails

• Understanding Life
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 175mm x 124mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 214g
• ISBN-13: 9781009088329
• ISBN-10: 1009088327
• Artikelnr.: 64296025