『The Meaning of Evolution : The Morphological Construction and Ideological Reconstruction of Darwin's Theory』

Robert J. Richards

(1992年刊行,The University of Chicago Press,ISBN:0226712028 [hbk] / ISBN:0226710236 [pbk])



【目次】
List of Illustrations ix
Preface xiii


1. The Natural History of Ideas 1

2. Evolution vs. Epigenesis in Embryogenesis 5

3. The Theory of Evolutionary Recapitulation in the Context of Transcendental Morphology 17

Early Recapitulation Theory 18
Naturphilosophy and Transcendental Morphology 21
Oken's Transcendental Morphology 39
Evolutionary Recapitulationism of Tiedemann, Treviranus, and Meckel
Von Baer's Critique of Recapitulation Theory 42

4. Emergence of Evolutionary Theories of Species Change 55

Serres, Grant, Green, and Lyell on Recapitulation and Evolution 69
Darwin's Theories of Species Change 80
Natural Selection as the Mechanism of Progressive Evolution 84

5. Darwin's Embryological Theory of Progressive Evolution 91

The Embryological Model as Formulated in the Notebooks 92
Owen's Rejection of Recapitulation and Evolution 98
Darwin's Knowledge of von Baer 106
Historical Evaluation of Darwin's Principle of Recapitulation 111
Recapitulation in the Essays and Impact of Agassiz's Fishes, 1842-1844 115
Owen, Chambers, and Milne-Edwards, 1844-1846 126
The Embryology of Barnacles and the Criteria of Progressive Development, 1846-1854 136
Huxley's Objections to Recapitulation and Darwin's Experiments 143
Embryological Recapitulation in the Origin of Species 152
The Role of Recapitulation in the Descent of Man 158
The Logic and Darwin's Theory of Evolution 165

6. The Meaning of Evolution and the Ideological Use of History 167



Bibliography 181
Index 191