The Evolutionary Biology Papers of Elie Metchnikoff

H. Gourko, D. Williamson, A.I. Tauber (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

230 Seiten

2010 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000
Springer (Verlag)
978-90-481-5356-5 (ISBN)

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Elie Metchnikoff (1845-1916), winner of the Nobel Prize in 1907 for his contributions to immunology, was first a comparative zoologist, who, working in the wake of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, made seminal contributions to evolutionary biology. His work in comparative embryology is best known in regard to the debates with Ernst Haeckel concerning animal genealogical relationships and the theoretical origins of metazoans. But independent of those polemics, Metchnikoff developed his `phagocytosis theory' of immunity as a result of his early comparative embryology research, and only in examining the full breadth of his work do we appreciate his signal originality. Metchnikoff's scientific papers have remained largely untranslated into English. Assembled here, annotated and edited, are the key evolutionary biology papers dating from Metchnikoff's earliest writings (1865) to the texts of his mature period of the 1890s, which will serve as an invaluable resource for those interested in the historical development of evolutionary biology.

1. On the Developmental Life-History of Myzostomum (1866).- 2. On the Embryonic Development of Lower Crustacea (1866).- 3. Anthropology and Darwinism (1875).- 4. Essay on Questions about the Origin of Species (1876).- 5. Comparative Embryological Studies (1881–1885).- 6. Embryological Studies on Medusae: On the Evolutionary Origins of the Primary Tissues (1886).- 7. The Struggle for Existence between Parts of the Animal Organism (1892).- Index of Authors.- Index of Organisms.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.12.2010
Reihe/Serie	Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ; 212
Zusatzinfo	X, 230 p.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Evolution
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-10	90-481-5356-5 / 9048153565
ISBN-13	978-90-481-5356-5 / 9789048153565
Zustand	Neuware