Images of the Economy of Nature, 1650-1930 From "Nature's War" to Darwin's "Struggle for Life"

Title:

Author:

La Vergata, Antonello. author.

ISBN:

9783031310232

Edition:

1st ed. 2023.

Physical Description:

V, 616 p. 6 illus., 3 illus. in color. online resource.

Series:

Evolutionary Biology - New Perspectives on Its Development, 7

Contents:

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Abundance and Variety -- Chapter 3: Evil in Nature -- Chapter 4: Carnivores, Extinctions, and the Beast -- Chapter 5: Struggle for Life vs Evolution -- Chapter 6: The Struggle for Existence, or, What's in a Metaphor? -- Chapter 7: New Places in the Economy of Nature -- Chapter 8: Survival of the Fittest and Cosmical Evolution -- Chapter 9: Struggles for Existence -- Chapter 10: Another Now, or a Vindication of a "Historical History of Science".

Subject Term:

Evolution (Biology).

Science -- History.

Philosophy of nature.

Biotic communities.

Population biology.

Evolutionary developmental biology.

Evolutionary Theory.

History of Science.

Evolutionary Biology.

Community and Population Ecology.

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