[PDF] Darwins Screens eBook

Author : Barbara Creed
Publisher : Academic Monographs
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 33,3 MB
Release : 2009-10-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780522860023

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Darwin's Screens addresses a major gap in film scholarship—the key influence of Charles Darwin's theories on the history of the cinema. Much has been written on the effect of other great thinkers such as Freud and Marx but very little on the important role played by Darwinian ideas on the evolution of the newest art form of the twentieth century. Creed argues that Darwinian ideas influenced the evolution of early film genres such as horror, the detective film, science fiction, film noir and the musical. Her study draws on Darwin's theories of sexual selection, deep time and transformation, and on emotions, death, and the meaning of human and animal in order to rethink some of the canonical arguments of film and cinema studies.

Author : R. Weikart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,20 MB
Release : 2016-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1137109866

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In this work, Richard Weikart explains the revolutionary impact Darwinism had on ethics and morality. He demonstrates that many leading Darwinian biologists and social thinkers in Germany believed that Darwinism overturned traditional Judeo-Christian and Enlightenment ethics, especially the view that human life is sacred. Many of these thinkers supported moral relativism, yet simultaneously exalted evolutionary 'fitness' (especially intelligence and health) to the highest arbiter of morality. Darwinism played a key role in the rise not only of eugenics, but also euthanasia, infanticide, abortion and racial extermination. This was especially important in Germany, since Hitler built his view of ethics on Darwinian principles, not on nihilism.

Author : Glenn Geher
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 29,85 MB
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0190624973

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There is a paradox when it comes to Darwinian ideas within the academy. On one hand, Darwin's theories have famously changed the foundational ideas related to the origins of life, shaping entire disciplines in the biological sciences. On the other hand, people in educated societies across the globe today are famously misinformed and uneducated about Darwinian principles and ideas. Applications of evolutionary theory outside the traditional areas of biology have been slow to progress, and scholars doing such work regularly run into all kinds of political backlash. However, a slow but steady push to advance the teaching of evolution across academic disciplines has been under way for more than a decade. This book serves to integrate the vast literature in the interdisciplinary field of Evolutionary Studies (EvoS), providing clear examples of how evolutionary concepts relate to all facets of life. Further, this book provides chapters dedicated to the processes associated with an EvoS education, including examples of how an interdisciplinary approach to evolutionary theory has been implemented successfully at various colleges, universities, and degree programs. This book also offers chapters outlining a variety of applications to an evolution education, including improved sustainable development, medical practices, and creative and critical thinking skills. Exploring controversies surrounding evolution education, this volume provides a roadmap to asking and answering Darwinian questions across all areas of intellectual inquiry.

Author : Charles Darwin
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 37,7 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780393969672

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Gathers selections from nine of Darwin's most important books, including writings about coral reefs, the Galapagos Islands, evolution, emotions, and flowers.

Author : Jeanette Hoorn
Publisher : Miegunyah Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 21,95 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN :

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In celebration of the the bicentenary year of Charles Darwin's birth and complementing the Darwin's Cornucopia, Evolution, Science and Art exhibit in Australia, this record highlights the impact of Darwinian thought on Australian art, science, and culture. Comprehensive and unique, this collection of insightful essays reflects upon topics ranging from the voyage of the HMS Beagle to bioethics and cloning. This volume shows how pervasive the ideas of Charles Darwin are in the Australian arts and sciences and depicts the great influence his thinking has had in the international community and in cultures the world over.

Author : Brian Boyd
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0231150199

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Jonathan Gottschall teaches English at Washington and Jefferson College. --Book Jacket.

Author : Richard Hoyt
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 33,63 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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A riverboat trip deep into the heart of the Amazon basin makes for a wild, picaresque adventure story. Barco Igaranha's disparate passengers cannot possibly imagine what awaits them.

Author : Douglas J. Futuyma
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 21,58 MB
Release : 2024-10-29
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0691264635

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"Why are male birds often so brightly colored? Why do some birds lay more eggs than others? Will bird species adapt to climate change? In How Birds Evolve, Douglas Futuyma invites readers into the amazing world of bird evolution to answer these and other questions. Futuyma's goal in this book is not to offer a comprehensive evolutionary history of birds, but to explore how the processes of evolution produced the distinctive features and behaviors we observe in birds today as well as their impressive diversity. Using one or two birds per chapters as a lens into broader questions, Futuyma explores how a bird's evolutionary history helps us understand the diversity of species and the bird tree of life and how natural selection explains most of the characteristics of birds from how populations adapt to sexual selection and birds' amazing social behavior. Futuyma concludes by discussing the future of birds, particularly patterns of extinction and whether they can adapt to a changing climate. Ultimately, Futuyman wants readers to see that evolutionary biology helps us to better understand birds, and that the reverse is also true: studies of birds have informed almost every aspect of evolutionary biology, from Darwin to today"--