Darwin's Corals: 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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:3110643340

ISBN13:9783110643343

Release Date:September 2019

Publisher:de Gruyter

Length:128 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.6"

Grade Range:Postsecondary

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