The vision of the past / translated by J.M. Cohen
1966, Editions de Seuil. London : Collins. Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #445848
Physical description; 285 pages, maps, diagrams, 22 cm. Contents; How the Transformist question presents itself today -- The face of the earth -- On the law of irreversibility in evolution -- Hominization -- The transformist paradox -- The natural history of the world -- On the necessarily discontinuous appearance of ever evolutionary series -- The basis and foundation of the idea of evolution -- The movements of life -- What should we think of transformation? -- The phenomenon of man -- Man's place in nature -- The discovery of the past -- The natural units of humanity -- Man's place in the universe -- Zoological evolution and invention -- The vision of the past -- Evolution of the idea of evolution -- Nore on the present reality and evolutionary significance of a human orthogenesis -- Hominization and speciation -- A defence of orthogenesis in the matter of patterns of speciation -- Index. Subjects; Evolution. Philosophical anthropology. Cosmology. Evolution (Biology). Biological Evolution. Philosophy History. Philosophy, Modern.
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