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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... natural history course , the latter supported by a fine natural history museum . He liked the museum very much . There he met a local taxidermist , a freed slave called John Edmonston , who had arrived in Scotland from the West Indies ...
... natural history course , the latter supported by a fine natural history museum . He liked the museum very much . There he met a local taxidermist , a freed slave called John Edmonston , who had arrived in Scotland from the West Indies ...
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... natural history as a vocation and hoped to be accepted as an equal in the scientific community . He wanted to be an inde- pendent gentleman - expert like Lyell , free to write books and follow his natural history inclinations , not tied ...
... natural history as a vocation and hoped to be accepted as an equal in the scientific community . He wanted to be an inde- pendent gentleman - expert like Lyell , free to write books and follow his natural history inclinations , not tied ...
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... natural history towards a more experimental , laboratory - based form of investigation , a move that can be seen taking place in almost all of the sciences at this time . Traditional natural history , of course , did not stop ; it ...
... natural history towards a more experimental , laboratory - based form of investigation , a move that can be seen taking place in almost all of the sciences at this time . Traditional natural history , of course , did not stop ; it ...
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