Darwin's Origin of Species: A BiographyAtlantic Monthly Press, 2007 - Всего страниц: 174 Charles Darwin's foremost biographer, Janet Browne, delivers a vivid and accessible introduction to the book that permanently altered our understanding of what it is to be human. A sensation on its publication in 1859, The Origin of the Species profoundly shocked Victorian readers by calling into question the belief in a Creator with its description of evolution through natural selection. And Darwin's seminal work is nearly as controversial today. In her illuminating study, Browne delves into the long genesis of Darwin's theories, from his readings as a university student and his five-year voyage on the Beagle, to his debates with contemporaries and experiments in his garden. She explores the shock to Darwin when he read of competing scientist's similar discoveries and the wide and immediate impact of Darwin's theories on the world. As one of the launch titles in Atlantic Monthly Press' "Books That Changed the World" series, Browne's history takes readers inside The Origin of the Species and shows why it can fairly claim to be the greatest science book ever published. |
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... early years of the century - the Cambridge network , as it has been characterized . Paley's clear language gave Darwin great pleasure . ' The logic of this book [ Evidences of Christianity ] and as I may add of his Natural Theology gave ...
... early years of the century - the Cambridge network , as it has been characterized . Paley's clear language gave Darwin great pleasure . ' The logic of this book [ Evidences of Christianity ] and as I may add of his Natural Theology gave ...
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... earliest stages that could be studied for insights into the history of mankind . - While Lyell grappled with early humanity , Joseph Hooker aimed at the empire of botany . Hooker's father – and then Hooker himself - was director of Kew ...
... earliest stages that could be studied for insights into the history of mankind . - While Lyell grappled with early humanity , Joseph Hooker aimed at the empire of botany . Hooker's father – and then Hooker himself - was director of Kew ...
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... early humans into the racial groups that physical anthro- pologists described . Preference for certain skin colours was a good example . Early men would choose wives according to local ideas of beauty , he suggested . The skin colour of ...
... early humans into the racial groups that physical anthro- pologists described . Preference for certain skin colours was a good example . Early men would choose wives according to local ideas of beauty , he suggested . The skin colour of ...
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