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Picturing Evolution And Extinction
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Author : Fae Brauer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Picturing Evolution And Extinction written by Fae Brauer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
Picturing Evolution And Extinction
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Author : Fae Brauer
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2015-10-05
Picturing Evolution And Extinction written by Fae Brauer and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-05 with Art categories.
With the increasing loss of biological diversity in this Sixth Age of Mass Extinction, it is timely to show that devolutionary paranoia is not new, but rather stretches back to the time of Charles Darwin. It is also an opportune moment to show how human-driven extinction, as designated by the term, Anthropocene, has long been acknowledged. The halcyon days of European industrial progress, colonial expansion and scientific revolution trumpeted from the Great Exhibition of 1851 until the Dresden International Hygiene Exhibition of 1930 were constantly marred by fears of rampant degeneration, depopulation, national decline, environmental devastation and racial extinction. This is demonstrated by the discourses of catastrophism charted in this book that percolated across Europe in response to the theories of Darwin and Jean Baptiste Lamarck, as well as Marcellin Berthelot, Camille Flammarion, Ernst Haeckel, Louis Landouzy, Félix Le Dantec, Cesare Lombroso, Thomas Huxley, Bénédite-Augustin Morel, Louis Pasteur, Élisée Reclus, Rudolf Steiner and Wilhelm Wundt, among others. This book presents pioneering explorations of the interrelationship between these discourses and modern visual cultures and the ways in which the “picturing of evolution and extinction” by artists as diverse as Roger Broders, Albert Besnard, Fernand Cormon, Hélène Dufau, Émile Gallé, František Kupka, Pablo Picasso, Carles Mani y Roig, Sophie Taeuber and Vasilii Vatagin betrayed anxieties subliminally festering over degeneration alongside latent hopes of regeneration. Following Darwin’s concept of evolution as Janus-faced, the dialectical interplay of evolution and extinction and degeneration and regeneration is explored in modern visual cultures in Australia, America, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Spain and Switzerland at significant spatio-temporal junctures between 1860 and 1930. By unravelling the “picturing” of the dread of alcoholism, cholera, dysentery, tuberculosis, typhoid and rabies, alongside phobias of animalism, criminality, hysteria, impotency and ecological disaster, each chapter makes an original contribution to this new field of scholarship. By locating these discourses and visual cultures within the “golden age of Neo-Lamarckism”, they also reveal how regeneration was pictured as the Janus-face of degeneration able to facilitate evolution through the inheritance of beneficial characteristics in propitious environments. In striking such an uplifting note amidst the dissonant cacophony of catastrophism, this book reveals why the art and science of Transformism proved so appealing in France as elsewhere, and why visual cultures of regeneration became as dominant in the twentieth century as the picturing of degeneration had been in the nineteenth century. It also illuminates the paradoxical inversion that occurred in the twentieth century when devolution became equivalent to evolution for many Modernists. Hence, whilst this book opens with the picturing of indigenous people in Australia and North America as “doomed races” by the first publication of Darwin’s On The Origin of Species, it closes with the quest by 1930 for a regenerative suntan as dark as the skin of those indigenous people.
Fossils
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Author : Niles Eldredge
language : en
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Release Date : 1991
Fossils written by Niles Eldredge and has been published by White Lion Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Nature categories.
In this fascinating exploration of the fossil record, Niles Eldredge overturns the traditional view of evolution as a slow and inevitable process, and he shows that lifeforms generally do not evolve to any significant degree until after massive extinction. This rhythm of life--a concept developed by Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould known as punctuated equilibria in evolution-- is revealed by the fossilized remains of the earth's ancient flora and fauna. Distinguished photographer Murray Alcosser augments Eldredge's text with 160 luminous color plates illustrating more than 250 different fossil specimens. In this new paperback edition, Fossils becomes an accessible text with appeal to a broad audience, including natural history readers and students.
Extinction Evolution And The End Of Man
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Author : Michael Boulter
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2010-10-07
Extinction Evolution And The End Of Man written by Michael Boulter and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-07 with Science categories.
How long do humans have left on Earth? Using cutting-edge science that revolutionises our understanding of evolution, Michael Boulter explains how we may be closer to our own extinction than we imagined.
The End Of Evolution
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Author : Peter Douglas Ward
language : en
Publisher: Bantam
Release Date : 1994
The End Of Evolution written by Peter Douglas Ward and has been published by Bantam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Science categories.
On Mass extinction and the preservation of biodiversity.
Extinctions In The History Of Life
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Author : Paul D. Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2004-11-11
Extinctions In The History Of Life written by Paul D. Taylor and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-11 with Science categories.
Extinction is the ultimate fate of all biological species - over 99 percent of the species that have ever inhabited the Earth are now extinct. The long fossil record of life provides scientists with crucial information about when species became extinct, which species were most vulnerable to extinction, and what processes may have brought about extinctions in the geological past. Key aspects of extinctions in the history of life are here reviewed by six leading palaeontologists, providing a source text for geology and biology undergraduates as well as more advanced scholars. Topical issues such as the causes of mass extinctions and how animal and plant life has recovered from these cataclysmic events that have shaped biological evolution are dealt with. This helps us to view the biodiversity crisis in a broader context, and shows how large-scale extinctions have had profound and long-lasting effects on the Earth's biosphere.
The Choice
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Author : Ervin Laszlo
language : en
Publisher: Tarcher
Release Date : 1994
The Choice written by Ervin Laszlo and has been published by Tarcher this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Nature categories.
"In the closing years of the twentieth century, many scientists, politicians, economists, and journalists are pointing out the inevitable dangers of humanity's current trajectory and calling our world culture unsustainable. But most of their visions of doom are based on a single area of expertise - pollution, population, deforestation, energy depletion, or various other threats from unbridled technology. They do not reflect the big picture, which may be far less bleak than they propose." "Ervin Laszlo, a long-standing member of the Club of Rome and an internationally renowned expert on global trends, sees opportunities even amid the dark news. With a background in science, economics, philosophy, and art, he ties diverse issues into a grand vision he calls the Fifth Wave - the complex interaction of trends that has led us to unprecedented "global stress." By exploring the underlying causes of the Fifth Wave, readers will gain a deeper perspective on daily headlines and a new hope for alternative directions for humanity." "Dr. Laszlo describes the era in which we live as the "Grand Transition," a time when classical assumptions have collapsed. The world is much more complex and the problems that surround us more difficult to understand, let alone solve, than ever before. But, he says, if we alter our perceptions of environmental, colonial, and social issues, we can still intervene successfully to resolve crucial global crises." "Dr. Laszlo gives specific recommendations for this renewed perception in the areas of education, communication, and information-gathering to help us navigate the turbulent waters of the twenty-first century. And most important, he shares signs of hope for the future: value changes in society, a green trend in politics, shifts in corporate culture, a paradigm shift in science, and the reinvigoration of spiritual life are all contributing to our ultimate evolution, not extinction." "Caught between fruitless despair and seemingly naive hope, thinking people throughout the world need an authoritative voice to offer guidance that points the way to real evolutionary change. In The Choice, Ervin Laszlo offers such a vision."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Modeling Extinction
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Author : Mark E. J. Newman
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Release Date : 2003
Modeling Extinction written by Mark E. J. Newman and has been published by Oxford University Press on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Mathematics categories.
Preface. 1. Extinction in the Fossil Record. 2. Fitness Landscape Model. 3. Self-Organized Critical Models. 4. Interspecies Connection Models. 5. Environmental Stress Models. 6. Non-equilibrium Models. 7. Summary. References. Index.
Evolution And Extinction
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Author : W. G. Chaloner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994-06-09
Evolution And Extinction written by W. G. Chaloner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-06-09 with Science categories.
Authoritative essays on the pace and nature of evolutionary change.
Evolutionary Catastrophes
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Author : V. Courtillot
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2002-03-07
Evolutionary Catastrophes written by V. Courtillot and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-03-07 with Nature categories.
Mass extinction and cataclysmic volcanic activity: will fascinate everyone interested in the history of life and death on our planet.