Darwin's Corals: A New Model of Evolution and the Tradition of Natural History

by Horst Bredekamp

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