The Triumph of the Darwinian Method

Berkeley: University of California Press, 1969. First Edition. Octavo in goldenrod jacket; 287 pages illustrations 23 cm; bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 247-279). Bookplate and owner signature, else about near fine(-) in very good partially spine-sunned jacket. Hardcover. ISBN: 0226290247; 9780226290249

History of Science Society Pfizer Award, 1970. ¶ Contents: 1. Geology -- 2. Biogeography and Evolution -- 3. Natural Selection -- 4. Taxonomy -- 5. Barnacles -- 6. A Metaphysical Satire -- 7. Variation -- 8. An Evolutionary Psychology -- 9. Sexual Selection -- 10. Conclusions. ¶ "Michael T. Ghiselin (b 1939) is an American biologist and philosopher as well as historian of biology, formerly at the California Academy of Sciences. He is known for his work concerning sea slugs, and for his criticism of the falsification of the history of Lamarckism in biology textbooks. Ghiselin received his B.A. in 1960 from the University of Utah and his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1965. He became a Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard University (1964–65) and later became Postdoctoral Fellow at the Marine Biological Laboratory in 1965. There he stayed until 1967 as he was appointed assistant professor of zoology at the University of California, Berkeley and later was chosen as a Guggenheim Fellow (1978–79). Ghiselin served as research professor of biology at the University of Utah (1980–83) and was MacArthur Prize Fellow from 1981 to 1986. Since 1983 he has been a senior research fellow at the California Academy of Sciences." —Wikipedia. ¶ Biological Evolution pollution. natural resource management. environmental science. Ciencia. Évolution (Biologie) evolution. Evolution (Biology) Evolutionstheorie Wissenschaft Methode Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten Ciencia. Darwin, Charles, 1809-1882.