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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Origin of Species"”.
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Rhetoric and Romanticism in Charles Darwin's <em>Origin of Species</em>
… were undoubtedly based on the reception of the evolutionary paradigm he articulated in <em>Origin of Species</em>. Although many of Darwin's ideas were <em>only</em> ideas at the time of <em>Origin's</em> publication, they indubitably fostered the widespread acceptance of the evolutionary …
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Presbyterian Attitudes Toward Science and the Coming of Darwinism in America, 1859 to 1929
… developments in science following the appearance of Darwin's Origin of Species. The reaction to Darwin, of course, was varied and historians continue to examine the effects of the Darwinian Re
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Metromorphosis : evolution on the urban island
… ground for evolution. With more than half of the world's population living in urban areas now, the influence cities have on the planet's life is enormous. But can they produce species? Foxes are learning to take advantage of human handouts in London, blackbirds are adjusting their …
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The Darwin debate in Dublin, 1859-1908.
… to analyse both the course and the effects of the Darwin debate in Dublin during the first fifty years after the landmark publication of Charles Darwin’s Origin of species in 1859. Darwin’s hypothesis that species evolved gradually over time by a process of natural selection was so vastly …
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Evolving Minds: Helping Students with Cognitive Dissonance
… years after Charles Darwin published <em>On the Origin of Species</em>, public school teachers still find themselves dealing with student resistance to learning about biological evolution. Some teachers deal with this pressure by undermining, deemphasizing, or even omitting the topic in their …
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"There was No Sign of Man in It": Casting Dracula as Posthuman and Valuing the Progressive Vampire
… has since become a seminal example of Gothic horror at the <em>fin-de-siècle</em>, leading not only to film, stage, and television adaptations, but also to literary reimaginings and a plethora of scholarship. I argue that the vampires in <em>Dracula </em>do not fit into the …
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Unbound: An Origin Story
… quest, through which I reflect on the subject of a ‘myth of origin'. I rely on the two foundational yet competing epistemes that have been shaping my understanding of the concept throughout my life: On one end, the dogmatic Abrahamic mythology with which I was raised as an Israeli Jew; On the …
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Strata, Soma, Psyche: Narrative and the Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century Science of Lyell, Darwin, and Freud
… Imagination in the Nineteenth-Century Science of Lyell, Darwin, and Freud,” contributes new research to the diverse field mapping the intersections of science and literature in the nineteenth century. Although scholars such as Gillian Beer and George Levine have established ties between …
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On the origin of 'Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation' : science, religion, and the natural world in early Victorian Scotland
Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation was the first book published in Britain in the nineteenth century that made a comprehensive case arguing for the evolution of life. It appeared anonymously fifteen years before Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, and it was read and discussed by many …
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Imagining a Place in Nature: Using Evolution to Explain the Early Evolutionary Imagination in Literature
After Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, Victorian literature overflowed with images of man’s new place in nature. Those images can be explained by modern research that builds on Darwin’s theory: the evolutionary social sciences and evolutionary literary theory. Humans are …
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William Dean Howells and the New Science: Darwinian Evolution and the Rise of Realism
Broad acceptance of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species emboldened a young William Dean Howells to explore the possibility of a scientific foundation for a new literature combining close observations of the immediate environment with a method of interpreting these observations based on evolutionary …
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The Convoluted Origin and Diversification of Strangler Figs in the Neotropics
<p>Ficus (figs) is a hyper-diverse genus of tropical plants (> 800 species). No other group is comparable in terms of species richness, growth form (trees, shrubs, climbers, hemiepiphytes or stranglers), and ubiquity in tropical and subtropical regions. Figs also have a mutualistic relationship …
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Natural Disorder: The Animal Image in French and British Art before Darwin, c. 1790-1859
This study of the animal form in French and British art reveals humanity's shifting self-image as new theories of species transmutation replaced hierarchical models of nature in the half-century before the publication of Charles Darwin's <italic>On the Origin of Species</italic> in 1859. To assert …
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The Reconciliation of Science and Religion in Symbolo-Fideism
<p>From the publication in 1859 of On the Origin of Species by means of Natural Selection, religion was in open warfare against science. By the end of the century the war was not going well for religion. Biology, anthropology, archeology, the "higher criticism" united in an attack on Christian …
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UN INCONTRO TRA DARWINISMO E PRAGMATISMO: LA FILOSOFIA EVOLUZIONISTICA DI CHAUNCEY WRIGHT
… in the years that followed the publication of The Origin of Species (1859), virtually nobody, among scientists and philosophers, agreed with the principle of natural selection put forward by Darwin as the main explanation of the evolutionary process. This happened because Darwin’s theory was …
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“Bound together by a web”: Victorian literary and cultural conceptions of human-nature entanglement
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-02-04 without embargo terms