Evolutionary Systems: Biological and Epistemological Perspectives on Selection and Self-Organization

by Gertrudis Van de Vijver

The three well known revolutions of the past centuries - the Copernican, the Darwinian and the Freudian - each in their own way had a deflating and mechanizing effect on the position of humans in nature. They opened up a richness of disillusion: earth acquired a more modest place in the universe, the human body and mind became products of a long material evolutionary history, and human reason, instead of being the central, immaterial, locus of understanding,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792352602
• ISBN13: 9780792352600
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 438 Pages
• Weight: 1.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"