Horst Bredekamp 
Darwin’s Corals [PDF ebook] 
A New Model of Evolution and the Tradition of Natural History

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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.

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Langue Anglais ● Format PDF ● Pages 128 ● ISBN 9783110680317 ● Taille du fichier 10.8 MB ● Maison d’édition De Gruyter ● Lieu Berlin/Boston ● Publié 2019 ● Édition 1 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 7487525 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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