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Per più di vent'anni Richard Dawkins, l'etologo inglese teorico del "gene egoista", e Stephen J. Gould, il paleontologo di Harvard noto per i saggi di storia naturale, non si sono risparmiati colpi per contendersi l'eredità di Darwin. Sul tappeto, due visioni diverse dei meccanismi che producono il cambiamento: il gene come unità fondamentale dell'evoluzione, nel caso di Dawkins, una storia naturale influenzata da fattori ecologici molteplici e contingenti, nel caso di Gould. Kim Sterelny propone qui una sintesi della controversia, riducendola ai temi essenziali senza mai banalizzarla. Delinea le ragioni dello scontro, ma anche i possibili punti di convergenza, di una delle dispute più appassionanti del dibattito contemporaneo.
- ISBN: 887078861X
- Casa Editrice: Raffaello Cortina Editore
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- Data di uscita: 01-10-2003
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See below for my summary of the content. As for the book as a whole, I can say it is reasonably well written, but tough going. Indeed, part of the reason for me writing such a detailed summary was to get to grips with it all properly. I am not, of course, qualified to judge how good the science actu Leggi tutto
Sterelny tries to distill the arguments of two great evoluntionary theorists down into 140 short pages, and then tries to explain where the two diverge. He doesn't really succeed in either case: you leave the book thinking, yeah, sure, Gould and Dawkins disagreed...but on what?
Il libro descrive le divergenze tra Dawkins e Gould relativamente ai meccanismi dell’evoluzione e della selezione (i cui principi entrambi accettano). E’ destinato quindi solo a chi abbia letto entrambi gli Autori. Peraltro, chi abbia letto entrambi una sua idea certamente se l’e’ fatta, ed allora c Leggi tutto
Despite the silly title and backcover copy, this is a serious and thoughtful book that sheds light on the bits of evolutionary theory that we don't yet know. The danger with any attempt to present evolutionary theory as incomplete is that you'll be mistaken for a creationist. Sterelny is no creation Leggi tutto
I found this brief but comprehensive overview of the scientific rivalry between Gould and Dawkins in a bookshop in Edinburgh while I was on holiday. As someone who has read a lot of each author's work, I felt Sterelny was fair in the way he characterized their thought. His writing is sometimes clunk Leggi tutto
It's a very succinct book on a very cerebral topic: the clash of perspectives between two school of evolutionary biologists. All in all the book can't be said bad, but the lucidity is lost with too much information crammed within too little space. This book should've been thicker, there was too litt Leggi tutto
This is a useful clearly written little book that compares the two famous but very different evolutionary theorists, Dawkins and Gould. The first part of the book is a summary of Dawkins while the second part is on Gould. The author does not only point out their differences but also show their oc Leggi tutto
Only became aware there was a controversy in one of the essays in a recent Dawkins read - 'A devil's chaplin' ... though dawkins was extremely gracious in his criticism of Gould, to the point that i'm now reading Gould's series of books based on his column in Natural history ... so, it was an easy d Leggi tutto
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