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Analysing Darwin's Eeological Ideas

Posted on:2012-09-29Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:H F LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2120330332992740Subject:Philosophy of science and technology
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Darwin's Ecological thoughts were included in, the "Origin of Species" and the" Descent of Man", two works of ecology. When we say Darwin, we often only think of "natural selection, survival of the fittest", it is the core idea of evolution in "Origin of Species", only one of Darwin's an ecological thinking aspects. The" Descent of Man "is also the work of Darwin. Darwin in this book, the "Origin of Species ", supplemented the biological theory of evolution, proposed that the existence of natural selection is not only from struggle for existence, but also from cooperation. Ecological thinking of cooperation is another aspect of Darwin's thinking.The theory of origin of species has its preconditions. First, ecological ideas of Darwin's burgeoning subjective element occupy position. Secondly, in the nineteenth century nature sciences were the base of the development of Darwin's theory. Finally, Darwin's ecological practice made him to form the theory of survival struggle ".In this period, idea of Darwin's struggle is the main one.The Descent of Man, its idea is one of Darwin's ecological idea of a higher stage. Darwin proposed the ecological idea to cooperate. This is survival and development cooperation to jointly by natural selection mechanism. Darwin studied the origin of the human and moral evolutionism and concerted cooperation for social instinct. The progress of our society is consistent with this ecological idea of human development.Darwin ecological idea is an evolving process. In order to understand Darwin's ecological ideas of evolution, we also need compare these two kinds of ideas. When we study Darwin's thinking process and compare these two kinds of ideas, we can find that The Origin Of Mankind, its idea is the transcendence and reflective over The Origin of Species.
Keywords/Search Tags:Darwin, Ecological Idea, Struggle For Survival, Cooperation To Evol
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