Darwin's Argument by Analogy: From Artificial to Natural Selection

by Gregory Radick, Roger White, Jonathan Hodge, et al.

Book Overview

In On the Origin of Species (1859), Charles Darwin put forward his theory of natural selection. Conventionally, Darwin's argument for this theory has been understood as based on an analogy with artificial selection. But there has been no consensus on how, exactly, this analogical argument is supposed to work - and some suspicion too that analogical arguments on the whole are embarrassingly weak. Drawing on new insights into the history of analogical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108708528
• ISBN13: 9781108708524
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 259 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"