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The Strategy of Life
- Teleology and Mechanics in Nineteenth-Century German Biology
Engelsk Paperback

The Strategy of Life

- Teleology and Mechanics in Nineteenth-Century German Biology
Engelsk Paperback

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In the early nineteenth century, a group of German biologists led by Johann Friedrich Blumenbach and Karl Friedrich Kielmeyer initiated a search for laws of biological organization that would explain the phenomena of form and function and establish foundations for a unified theory of life. The tradition spawned by these efforts found its most important spokesman in Karl Ernst von Baer. Timothy Lenoir chronicles the hitherto unexplored achievements of the practitioners of this research tradition as they aimed to place functional morphology at the heart of a new science, which they called "biology." Strongly influenced by Immanuel Kant, the biologists' approach combined a sophisticated teleology with mechanistic theories and sparked bitter controversies with the rival programs, mechanistic reductionism and Darwinism. Although temporarily eclipsed by these two approaches, the morphological tradition, Lenoir argues, was not vanquished in the field of scientific debate. It contributed to pathbreaking research in areas such as comparative anatomy, embryology, paleontology, and biogeography.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
333
ISBN-13:
9780226471839
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0226471837
Udg. Dato:
25 apr 1989
Længde:
28mm
Bredde:
228mm
Højde:
153mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
25 apr 1989
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