A Cognitive Semantics Approach to Darwin’s Theory of Evolution

List of Tables Tab 3.1. Correspondences in the metaphor evolutionary change is motion in space ........................................................................... 73 Tab 3.2. The Tree of Life: Correspondences between the domains of TREE and RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ORGANISMS ................. 99 Tab 4.1. The metaphorical mappings between the domain of relationships between co-EXISTING organisms and the domain of war ............................................................... 131 Tab 4.2. The “struggle for existence” integration network .................... 134 Tab 4.3. Force-dynamic patterns in Darwin’s theory ............................ 143 Tab 5.1. Nature is a Breeder/Gardener: The integration network ................................................................................. 155 Tab 5.2. The integration network “Forms of organisms are the result of an event” . .............................................................................. 168 Tab 5.3. Variation under nature and natural selection . ......................... 169 Tab 5.4. Natural selection as natural causation . ................................... 173 Tab 5.5. A summary of conceptual metaphors and blends identified in Darwin’s theory ..................................................................... 185 Tab 7.1. The integration network of the concept of Agency ................. 237

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