Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Darwin without Malthus [electronic resource] : the struggle for existence in Russian evolutionary thought / Daniel P. Todes.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Monographs on the history and philosophy of biologyPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1989.Description: 1 online resource (221 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780195363272
  • 0195363272
  • 0195058305
  • 9780195058307
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Darwin without Malthus.DDC classification:
  • 576.8/2092 22
LOC classification:
  • QH375 .T63 1989eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Darwin's metaphor and his Russian audience -- Malthus, Darwin, and Russian social thought -- Beketov, botany, and the harmony of nature -- Korzhinskii, the steppe, and the theory of heterogenesis -- Mechnikov, Darwinism, and the phagocytic theory -- Kessler and Russia's mutual aid tradition -- Kropotkin's theory of mutual aid -- Severtsov, Timiriazev, and the classical tradition.
Summary: The first book in English to examine in detail the scientific work of 19th-century Russian evolutionists, and the first in any language to explore the relationship of their theories to their economic, political, and natural milieu.
Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
eBook eBook e-Library EBSCO Science Available
Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Darwin's metaphor and his Russian audience -- Malthus, Darwin, and Russian social thought -- Beketov, botany, and the harmony of nature -- Korzhinskii, the steppe, and the theory of heterogenesis -- Mechnikov, Darwinism, and the phagocytic theory -- Kessler and Russia's mutual aid tradition -- Kropotkin's theory of mutual aid -- Severtsov, Timiriazev, and the classical tradition.

The first book in English to examine in detail the scientific work of 19th-century Russian evolutionists, and the first in any language to explore the relationship of their theories to their economic, political, and natural milieu.

Print version record.

Powered by Koha