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VIII, 188 Seiten. Originalbroschur. Breitrandiges, unbeschnittenes Exemplar (Einband gering fleckig u. mit geringen Beschädigungen an den Rändern. Drei Seiten mit Rotstiftanstreichungen. Namenszug a. d. Titelblatt) 24x17 cm

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* Erste deutsche Ausgabe. Selten! Emanuel Rádl (December 21, 1873 ? May 12, 1942) was an original Czech biologist, historian of science, philosopher and a critical supporter of Masaryk's pre-war democratic Czechoslovakia. He earned international renown by his works on the evolution of neural system and as historian of evolution theories. One of five children of a village merchant's family in Pyšely (35 km south of Prague), Rádl studied biology at Charles University in Prague, where he became assistant professor in 1904 and full professor in 1919. He worked on the neural system of insects, on phototropism and on the evolution of sight. Influenced by the German biologist and philosopher Hans Driesch, he became interested in philosophy of life and in a large work The History of Biological Theories (in German 1905?1909, in English 1930; reprint in 1988) he criticized the evolutionism of the 19th century.[1] At the book's climax at the end of Chapter 33, Rádl dismisses Darwinism with the words (Quelle Wikipedia)