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Darwin's Corals : A New Model of Evolution and the Tradition of Natural History, Hardback Book

Darwin's Corals : A New Model of Evolution and the Tradition of Natural History Hardback

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To this day Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory of the "survival of the fittest" has been visualized with the universal model of a tree of life.

But early on in Darwin’s thinking the coral provided a fascinating alternative to the tree as a depiction of the evolution of the species. Horst Bredekamp shows how Darwin, a coral enthusiast and collector, found in it a more adequate illustration of evolution through natural selection: It grows anarchically in all directions and no longer upholds mankind as the "crown of creation." Using this example Darwin is proving himself to be both a destroyer and consummator of traditional natural philosophy.

Since antiquity the coral had been a symbol of nature as a whole.

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