''Arvid ¿ren has undertaken the most meticulously thorough reading of the relevant literature that I have ever encountered, deploying an intelligent understanding to pull it into a coherent story. As if that wasn''t enough, he gets it right.'' (Richard Dawkins) To many evolutionary biologists, the central challenge of their discipline is to explain adaptation, the appearance of design in the living world. With the theory of evolution by natural selection, Charles Darwin elegantly showed how a purely mechanistic process can achieve this striking feature of nature. Since then, the way many biologists have thought about evolution and natural selection is as a theory about individual organisms. Over a century later, a subtle but radical shift inperspective emerged with the gene''s-eye view of evolution in which natural selection was conceptualized as a struggle between genes for replication and transmission to the next generation. This viewpoint culminated with the publication of The Selfi
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Providing a gateway to a new history of modern aesthetics, this book challenges conventional views of how art''s significance developed in society. <br/><br/>The 18th century is often said to have involved a radical transformation...
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Increasingly, North Americans and Western Europeans identify as ''spiritual but not religious''. But what does ''spirituality'' actually mean? And what does this recent ''spiritual turn'' reveal...
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Starting with a visit to the British Museum, the authors prompt us to consider the significance of Classics as a means of discovery and enquiry, its value in terms of literature, philosophy, and culture, and its importance as a source of imagery.
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