To this day Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory of the ‘survival of the fittest’ has been visualized 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: It grows anarchically in all directions and no longer upholds mankind as the ‘crown of creation.’ 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.
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Horst Bredekamp, Humboldt University Berlin.¡Compre este libro electrónico y obtenga 1 más GRATIS!
Idioma Inglés ● Formato PDF ● Páginas 128 ● ISBN 9783110680317 ● Tamaño de archivo 10.8 MB ● Editorial De Gruyter ● Ciudad Berlin/Boston ● Publicado 2019 ● Edición 1 ● Descargable 24 meses ● Divisa EUR ● ID 7487525 ● Protección de copia Adobe DRM
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