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Through the work of Charles Darwin, a great task was set before science: to progress from opinions about evolution to a science of evolution, and to reveal the inner laws and forces at work in the development of the organic world. In Thinking Beyond Darwin, Ernst-Michael Kranich focuses on a central problem of evolutionary science and shows us a way, based on Goethe's botanical and zoological investigations, of seeing the coherence and inner dynamics of organisms.
Using Goethe's concept of type as a key to vertebrate evolution, Kranich methodically lays a foundation for a science of evolution. In doing so, he focuses on the central problem of evolutionary science: are there underlying principles that connect the many disparate facts? By applying Goethe's method consistently to evolutionary thinking, Kranich shows that the laws and driving forces of evolution are encompassed by the inner lawfulness of living organisms, and that we must participate through formative thinking in the evolutionary processes.
This book makes an important contribution to the development of more adequate concepts of evolution and arrives at clear insights about earlier animal forms and evolutionary laws that could have immense consequences for future evolutionary thinking.
About the Author
ERNST-MICHAEL KRANICH was born in Stuttgart in 1929. He studied paleontology and biology and is author of numerous books, including Planetary Influences upon Plants. Presently, he is director of the Free University in Stuttgart, and for many years has been a guest lecturer at the University of Marburg.
Thinking Beyond Darwin: The Idea of the Type As a Key to Vertebrate Evolution (Renewal in Science) (Renewal in Science),Ernst-Michael Kranich,Lindisfarne Books,0940262932,Evolution,Evolution (Biology),Life Sciences - Evolution,Life Sciences - Zoology - General,Organic Evolution,Philosophy,Science,Science/Mathematics,Vertebrates
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