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Darwin's Corals
A New Model of Evolution and the Tradition of Natural History
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English
Published/Copyright:
2019
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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 anarchically in all directions and no longer upholds mankind as the "crown of creation." Using this example Darwin is proving himself to be both a destroyer and consummator of traditional natural philosophy. Since antiquity the coral had been a symbol of nature as a whole.
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Horst Bredekamp, Humboldt University Berlin.
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Table of Contents
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Preface to the English Edition
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Preface(2005)
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I. The Find (1834)
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II. From tree to coral (1837)
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III. Strickland’s alternatives (1840)
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IV. From the circle drawings to the diagram (1851–1858)
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V. The fold-out diagram in the Origin of Species (1859)
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VI. Coral: Tradition and Encounter
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Conclusion: The lure of the “endless”
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Acknowledgements
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Bibliography
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Index
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eBook published on:
September 23, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9783110680317
Hardcover published on:
September 23, 2019
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110643343
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10
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118
Coloured Illustrations:
45
Audience(s) for this book
Academics (history of art, visual sciences, philosophy, cultural studies)
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